Richard E. Hurley Receives National Educator Award

Richard E. Hurley, Ph.D., JD, CPA, CFE, CFF, received the prestigious National Educator Award from the Association of Government Accountants (AGA) on July 17th, 2013. Dr. Hurley’s award was presented at the Association’s Annual Professional Development Conference (PDC) training event in Dallas.

The AGA Educator Award was formally established to recognize an individual who has made significant contributions to educating and training government financial managers for more than two decades.

Dr. Hurley received this award in recognition of his vast contributions to the education and training of accountability professionals and students in advancing financial management. His presentations, courses and writings cover a wide range of accountability topics and his expertise as a practitioner and university professor is quite evident. He consistently receives excellent evaluations of his work and is well-respected in the field of government financial management. Dr. Hurley is a member of the AGA New York Capital Chapter.

Dr. Hurley has been a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the State of New York for 30 years and has also been a licensed Attorney in the State of New York for over 35 years and is licensed to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Tax Court.

He has written the Fraud Edge column for Fraud Magazine, which is a column devoted to fraud education for the benefit of academics and practitioners, and he currently co-authors a column entitled Global Fraud Focus.

He is also a member of the New York Society of CPAs and is a member of the Forensic Litigation Services Committee of the State Society and a member of the Anti-Money Laundering & Counter Terrorist Financing Committee.

Dr. Hurley has written and presented in the field of accounting and security fraud and auditing issues related to fraud detection and prevention. Dr. Hurley teaches MBA courses in Financial Accounting and Reporting, Financial Statement Analysis, Forensic Accounting & Fraud Examination for the University of Connecticut in Stamford, Connecticut where he has been a professor for 14 years.


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