Robert A. Bonavito is the managing partner for Robert A. Bonavito, CPA A Professional Corporation. Robert has studied finance and business valuation at Harvard University, along with earning a Bachelors from Montclair State University and his MBA in finance from Fairleigh Dickinson University. This formal education combined with over 30 years of experience as a forensic accountant has provided him with the opportunity to investigate, prepare reports, and testify in more than 2000 cases.
Robert’s education and experience led to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) requesting that he help develop and become a subject matter expert for the Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF) exam. The CFF exam is widely considered the most important credential a forensic accountant can obtain in the United States and throughout the world. Robert was one of a small group of forensic accountants selected as the original developers, writers and reviewers for the exams.
He has been appointed by many judges and appeared in most counties throughout New Jersey. In addition, he has been retained nationally on many complex legal matters. Robert has consulted and testified for both plaintiffs and defendants. He has testified in mediations, arbitrations and appeared as an expert witness at many trials for both criminal and civil matters. His testimony includes business valuation, Eichleay Formula calculations, fraud examination, matrimonial issues, damage assessment, lost profits calculations, shareholder disputes, malpractice actions, intangible valuations, mergers & acquisitions, criminal assets seizures, NJ Conscientious Employee Protection Act (NJ-CEPA) and sale of businesses. |  |