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Acuity

Acuity was named in 1 of the 13 fractional CFO and outsourced accounting firms questions measured by The Shortlist Report, appearing in 49 of the 211 AI responses sampled across those questions (23.2%).

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5Best tier reached

Acuity is strongest on What are the best fractional CFO firms?, where it was named in 49 of 211 responses (23.2%), placing it in tier 5 of that report.

What Acuity is surfaced for in fractional CFO and outsourced accounting firms

Based on the measured answers, Acuity is most likely to be surfaced when buyers ask about “What are the best fractional CFO firms?”.

How the answers describe the firmOffers outsourced controller and CFO support with multi-entity/multi-currency accounting for SaaS, professional services, and growing companies.

In this sample, Acuity was named on 1 of the 12 fractional CFO and outsourced accounting firms ranking questions measured. These are the buyer questions where it appeared most often:

This describes when the firm is surfaced, not whether it is the right firm to hire. The sample measures recommendation visibility, not client outcomes.

Every question in fractional CFO and outsourced accounting firms

Acuity was named on 1 of these 12 ranking questions. The rest are questions buyers ask that it did not come up for — with whoever did.

Who leads fractional CFO and outsourced accounting firms overall: Pilot tops 3 of 12 · Armanino tops 1 of 12 · BPM tops 1 of 12 · Burkland Associates tops 1 of 12 · InterimCFO tops 1 of 12 · PwC tops 1 of 12. See all reports.

Where Acuity was named

One row per report in which Acuity cleared the reporting threshold. Reports where it was not named often enough to clear that threshold are not listed. Each report states its own sample size and collection window.
QuestionTierResponsesShare
What are the best fractional CFO firms?549 of 21123.2%

What Acuity gets named for

Across the 13 fractional CFO and outsourced accounting firms questions measured, Acuity is named most often on What are the best fractional CFO firms? — it appears in 49 of the 211 ChatGPT responses to that question, or 23.2% of them.

That is the only question in this set where Acuity cleared the reporting threshold, so its visibility is concentrated in one kind of buyer question rather than spread across the category.

What Acuity’s tier placings mean

On What are the best fractional CFO firms?, Acuity sits in tier 5 of 6, named in 49 of 211 responses (23.2%). That places it below the leading group on this question, where the top firm was named in 95.3% of responses against Acuity’s 23.2%. It shares tier 5 with Grant Thornton, Preferred CFO, Deloitte and PwC, which the sample cannot separate from it. 1 further firm was named on this question but fell into lower tiers, meaning the sample did separate Acuity from it.

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