Lyndaker Earns Certified Fraud Examiner Credential

Dannible & McKee audit senior accountant Carly A. Lyndaker has earned the Certified Fraud Examiner designation from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

Updated on Nov. 13, 2026 in Financial Crime

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Carly A. Lyndaker, an audit senior accountant at Dannible & McKee, has earned the Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) designation from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. The credential is recognized globally as a standard of excellence in fraud prevention, detection and deterrence.

Why it matters

The CFE designation requires candidates to meet education and experience requirements and pass a comprehensive examination covering fraud schemes, investigation techniques and prevention strategies. For Central New York and the firm's other markets, it adds fraud-focused expertise to the audit, review and compilation work the firm performs for clients.

The Certified Fraud Examiner examination covers financial transactions and fraud schemes, investigation techniques, legal elements of fraud and fraud prevention strategies. Lyndaker's experience includes employee benefit plan audits, Federal Acquisition Regulation overhead rate audits and fraud-related engagements.

The players

Association of Certified Fraud Examiners

The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners is a professional organization that issues the Certified Fraud Examiner credential, recognized globally as a standard of excellence in fraud prevention, detection and deterrence.

Dannible & McKee

Dannible & McKee is a certified public accounting and consulting firm founded in 1978, with offices in Syracuse, Auburn, Binghamton and Schenectady, New York, and Tampa, Florida.

The details

Lyndaker joined Dannible & McKee in 2023 after completing two internships with the firm's audit department and now provides audit, review and compilation services, with a focus on construction and architecture and engineering firms.

1978: Dannible & McKee was founded.
2023: Lyndaker joined the firm after two internships in its audit department.

Legal Context

The CFE credential is the designation issued by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, whose examination tests legal elements of fraud and investigation methods used in financial crime cases. Earning it signals formal training in the detection and deterrence work that accountants increasingly perform alongside traditional audit duties.

Clients of accounting firms in New York and Florida can look to CFE-credentialed staff for fraud-focused review during audit, review and compilation engagements. Businesses seeking fraud prevention support can ask whether their accountants hold the designation.

The takeaway

Fraud examination training is becoming a practical part of everyday accounting work, not only a specialty for forensic investigators. Business owners can ask their accounting providers about fraud-related credentials when choosing a firm.