In the 1960s and 1970s, the field of forensic accounting began to expand as a response to an increase in white-collar crime and fraud [7]. The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) was established in 1988, which helped to establish forensic accounting as a formal profession ...
We consider several professional licenses and qualifications that are required for a registered financial representative. For instance, to provide fee-based advice, advisers must pass either Series 65 (Uniform Investment Adviser Law license) or Series 66 (Uniform Combined Law license) (Kowaleski et al...