About ACFE Hungary

Who We Are
ACFE Hungary is the local chapter of ACFE, the world's largest anti-fraud organization and premier provider of anti-fraud training and education. With nearly 85,000 members, the ACFE is impacting business fraud worldwide and inspiring public confidence in the integrity and objectivity within the profession.

Rules of Conduct
The Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) credential denotes proven expertise in fraud prevention, detection and deterrence. CFEs around the world help protect the global economy by uncovering fraud and implementing processes to prevent fraud from occurring in the first place.

Mission

Mission statement
Our mission is to counteract fraud and white-collar crime both domestically and internationally, bringing world-class, best practices and knowledge to our fellow practitioners. As a chapter of the global community of Certified Fraud Examiners, we disseminate and campaign for public awareness, revealing trends that would otherwise cheat our fellow citizens.

Our chapter aligns with the ACFE's main goals, namely to:

• Deter and detect fraud through the dissemination of knowledge and interaction among association members

• Raise the skills and qualification of members who can apply best practices and access resources in the fight against business fraud

• Cooperate with jurisdictional authorities, as well as other organizations: working investigations and applying fraud detection methods and, improve legislation and practices in relation to the detection and prevention of fraud and corruption.

With the ACFE we achieve our objectives by:

• Organizing and conducting lectures, seminars and other forms of training related to prevention and detection of fraud and corruption

• Training both our members and other individuals and organizations to create and refine the various means to detection and prevent fraud

• Providing assistance to various authorities and institutions in their pursuit to detect and prevent fraud

• Cooperating with other professional bodies and associations, both nationally in Hungary and abroad, in our common desire to further the body of knowledge as relates to fraud and corruption.

Chapter Officers

Marcell S. Gulyás, CFE, FCCA, CISA, CAMS - President, Treasurer

Mr Gulyas is an experienced Compliance Manager with a history of practical, industry experience having worked in audit and accounting. Having worked on dozens of internal and external audits, fraud investigations and dispute resolution, he gained key experience with the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), US GAAP and providing Assurance reporting. Having trained with Deloitte and Ernst & Young, currently worked at Citi, Mr Gulyas has amassed key qualifications aside from Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), namely in the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), Information Systems Audit and Control Association, specifically with a focus as a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). He also holds CAMS qualification.

Zsolt Jasku Dr., CFE, CPA - Vice President, Secretary

With over 25 years university teaching experience serving at as an Assistant Professor at Milton Friedman University, Budapest., Budapest's University of Economic Sciences, and Budapest's University of Technology and Economics; and also, as a teacher training Chartered Accountants Budapest's Management School of Accounting. Dr. Jasku has amassed experience over decades mastering an understanding of business, accounting and auditing which gives him the context needed to detect and design solutions to thwart fraud. Having written articles and books on the subject, he has argued the merits and issues of standards with legislators and promoted efforts to combat corruption and fraud. Additional, he has over 8 years of experience as a Judicial Expert witness in accountancy and audit. Dr. Jasku is a Certified Public Accountant, having apprenticed as an auditor with KPMG where he continued until 2009 when he became the Chief Financial Officer at CBA Ltd., and has been a CFE (since 2021).

Márton Hegyi, CFE - Board Member

Mr. Hegyi is an experienced manager with 20 years of experience in various fields of risk management and compliance. He gained experience in designing preventive frameworks, managing investigations and ABAC audits and also has skills in IT security and data analytics. Mr. Hegyi works as a Senior Manager at EY Forensic & Integrity services. Mr. Hegyi is a member of ACFE since 2015 and founding member of the Hungary chapter. He regularly speaks at events.

Membership

Additional Information

To become a member of the ACFE Hungary one must firstly share our objectives, as laid down by the ACFE (that is the "Association") and as per the Association's bye-laws, be a paid up member with at least the status of Associate Member, or having qualified, then Certified Fraud Detection Expert.

Aligned with the ACFE, we have two categories of membership:

1. Certified fraud detection experts (CFE)
2. Associate members.

Applications to join are considered periodically, by the ACFE-Hungary Board (during their meeting) and must be made with evidence to show current ACFE membership.

To then join the Chapter, by email to info@acfehungary.com, submit :

• Signed and then scanned Membership Application (see at Documents)

• Curriculum vitae in English

• Printout of an annual membership fee payment to ACFE USA, available on www.acfe.com.

The annual membership for members is free of charge, however, is only open to adults (and not companies).

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