Monica Violeta Achim is professor and doctoral supervisor in the field of Finance at the Faculty of Economic Sciences and Business Administration, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. With over 22 years of experience in academia, she has published as author and co-author, over 140 scientific articles and 25 books. Her most recent reference work is the book Economic and financial crime. Corruption, Shadow economy and Money laundering, co-authored by international publishing house Springer. In 2020 she obtained the Award for Excellence in Scientific Research, at Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, as a recognition of the results obtained in the research activity. In the business environment, she works in liberal professions as accountant expert, tax consultant and judicial expert, from this perspective being involved in solving many cases of economic and financial crime of the Palace of Justice, Cluj-Napoca.