Has anyone taken the CFE exam? What study materials did you used and how much time do you think it's needed?

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Yeah. Purchased ACFE’s study guide, read manual and did practice questions and exams. Accounting stuff is not difficult if you’ve been in audit for a little bit and other sections such as law cover a lot about how what kinds of laws are applicable and ones that cover specific fraud and criminal acts. I found it doable over the summer, when my work hours were about 40/week, a few hours each week to read over many chapters at a time and practice questions. Definitely less difficult than the CPA exam, less rote memorization and doing the practice questions were very helpful.
The most challenging was taking each exam part, b/c their exam software is clunky, and I’d wait maybe 45 minutes to an hour each time for a live proctor that was contracted from overseas.

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