R. Austin Marks
CPA CFF CFE CFD CFFA
Manager
Austin Marks is a Manager with Cendrowski Corporate Advisors (CCA). Austin specializes in litigation support, risk assessments, forensic examinations, and fraud investigations. With respect to his litigation support activities, Austin has provided economic damages calculations, valuation services, background investigations, lost profit analyses, discovery assistance, and financial analyses. Additionally, he has performed numerous comprehensive risk assessments emphasizing internal controls and business process evaluation, and has helped organizations successfully implement fraud deterrence procedures. Austin has managed forensic examinations and fraud investigations, including those with multi-million dollar misstatements, and has served as the lead examiner in many State of Michigan mortgage examinations. In conducting these examinations, Austin helped uncover several mortgage fraud schemes.
Austin is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Illinois and Michigan with Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF) credentials, a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), a Certified Fraud Deterrence Analyst (CFD), and a Certified Forensic Financial Analyst (CFFA). He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants (MACPA), Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), International Association of Consultants, Valuators and Analysts (IACVA), and the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts (NACVA). He is an editor for the “The Fraud Files”, a bimonthly newsletter appearing in The Value Examiner. Additionally, Austin delivers continuing education seminars for various professional service organizations and served as a contributing author for Private Equity: History, Governance, and Operations, published by John Wiley & Sons.
Austin graduated with honors from the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University with a B.A. in accounting.
