Acuity Associates provide skills-validated Finance Directors and CFO's into organisations either on a Project or Executive Search basis. Acuity Associates uses The Acuity Method™ to validate (or not!) the key skills of Finance Directors and CFO's as explored in the White Paper 'The 5D FD' before presenting to clients. The Acuity Method™ ensures that the candidates presented to clients have the required skills reducing the risk of hiring an Finance Director or CFO that are missing the competencies required for a particular business. Acuity's extensive benchmarking shows that only 1 out of 10 Finance Director or CFO candidates have the right skills for emerging mid market businesses. Services include: * Readying businesses for sale so they survive buyers' due diligence processes * Providing right-skilled CFOs/FDs into business post liquidity event * Part time CFO / FD support for projects or on-going - Creating data rooms - Supporting existing finance teams through the sales process - Enhancing systems, processes and reporting * Interim CFO / FD support - Creating data rooms - Supporting existing finance teams through the sales process - Enhancing systems, processes and reporting * Executive Search - uniquely only putting forward candidates who come in the top quartile of candidates against The Acuity Method™ benchmarks and percentiles. - FDs / CFOs - FCs - Management Accountants