Marcia Pekin

Marcia is an experienced finance professional with over 25 years as a Chartered Accountant, including 17 years as a forensic accountant.

As a forensic accountant Marcia has been effective in skilfully interpreting and analysing financial information to provide clear and concise financial reports on matters for lawyers, corporate executives, and insurance professionals across a broad range of sectors and a variety of scenarios. 

Her expertise includes business interruption, economic loss, personal injury, fidelity matters and specialised accounting reviews.

Marcia commenced her career in audit and has held various accounting roles in commerce. Marcia's experience as a forensic accountant includes roles in a specialised forensic accounting practice and within loss adjusting companies.

She is a member of the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand.

Business interruption/Economic loss

• Loss arising from damage to critical component at large steel fabrication which resulted in downstream increased costs of working and potential loss of future contracts.
• Concurrent cyclone events across multiple sites resulting in a large claim for an iron ore operation located in Western Australia. 
• Demurrage claim attached to a business interruption claim resulting from a storm at a port.
• Analysis of loss relating to damage to power plant involving detailed review of electricity generator use modelling.
• Cyclone impact on salt mine caused damage and also impacted the harvest profile of the mine.

Delayed start up

• Loss at a copper mine in Australia as a result of a delayed start up due to problems with the processing plant performance.
• Loss due to issues relating to design of plant at African diamond mine

Stock loss

• Fire at a mining equipment parts warehouse in Africa which required detailed analysis of valuation and obsolescence issues.
• Losses across multiple retail sites due to Brisbane floods including assessing group volume rebates, valuation and obsolescence.

Other

• Personal injury/economic loss for individuals across a range of business and industries
• Mine maintenance contract review
• Price adjustment review for electricity contract for mine operation