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Cohen & Company

Cohen & Company was named in 1 of the 13 fractional CFO and outsourced accounting firms questions measured by The Shortlist Report, appearing in 27 of the 240 AI responses sampled across those questions (11.3%).

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1 / 13Questions named in
27Responses naming it
11%Of 240 sampled
2Best tier reached

Cohen & Company is strongest on “Which fractional CFOs help prepare a company for fundraising?”, where it was named in 27 of 240 responses (11.2%), placing it in tier 2 of that report.

What Cohen & Company is surfaced for in fractional CFO and outsourced accounting firms

Based on the measured answers, Cohen & Company is most likely to be surfaced when buyers ask about “Which fractional CFOs help prepare a company for fundraising?”.

How the answers describe the firmProvides sell-side due diligence, quality of earnings reporting, data-room preparation, and buyer-question support for private-company sellers.

In this sample, Cohen & Company 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

Cohen & Company 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 Cohen & Company was named

One row per report in which Cohen & Company 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
Which fractional CFOs help prepare a company for fundraising?227 of 24011.2%

What Cohen & Company gets named for

Across the 13 fractional CFO and outsourced accounting firms questions measured, Cohen & Company is named most often on “Which fractional CFOs help prepare a company for fundraising?” — it appears in 27 of the 240 ChatGPT responses to that question, or 11.2% of them.

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

What Cohen & Company’s tier placings mean

On “Which fractional CFOs help prepare a company for fundraising?”, Cohen & Company sits in tier 2 of 2, named in 27 of 240 responses (11.2%). That places it below the leading group on this question, where the top firm was named in 24.2% of responses against Cohen & Company’s 11.2%. It shares tier 2 with Ignition Consultants, Into The Next, Alvarez & Marsal and EY, which the sample cannot separate from it.

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