Fraud Examination Updated Printing
W. Steve Albrecht is the Associate Dean of the Marriott School of Management and Arthur Andersen Professor at Brigham Young University. Dr. Albrecht, a certified public accountant, certified internal auditor, and certified fraud examiner, came to BYU in 1977 after teaching at Stanford and at the University of Illinois. Earlier, he worked as a staff accountant for Deloitte & Touche. Prior to becoming associate dean of the Marriott School, Dr. Albrecht served for eight years as the director of the School of Accountancy and Information Systems at BYU. During that time, BYU's undergraduate and graduate accounting programs were ranked second and third in the United States. Dr. Albrecht received a bachelor's degree in accounting from Brigham Young University and his M.B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He currently serves on the audit committees and boards of directors of three public and two private companies. Dr. Albrecht is married to the former LeAnn Christiansen and they have six children and six grandchildren.Chad O. Albrecht is the son of W. Steve Albrecht.  He is just graduating from Brigham Young University and plans to pursue a Ph.D. in behavioral decision making.  His interest in fraud began when he started attending seminars where is father was teaching about fraud.  He has worked as a research assistant for his father writing and researching about fraud.