Overview
Previously, where role of the CFOs used to be confined majorly to records of the company, financial reporting and compliance, today it is entirely different. Over the years, the role of CFOs has undergone a profound change. Today, CFOs drive the success and growth strategy of the organisations using their understanding and knowledge towards finance of the organisation. CFOs are now involved in almost every aspect of the organisation’s growth and excellence towards success be it operations, controls or strategy.
Acuity work with Fortune 500 corporations, mid-tier firms and disruptive start-ups, and understand their requirements. For nearly two decades, we have supported diverse stakeholders across corporate finance domain, who have benefited from our flexible, scalable and bespoke research services.
We are well placed to support CFOs to help them achieve strategic, operational, and financial objectives of their organizations in an agile, effective and cost-efficient way. We have strong capabilities to support CFOs find new business opportunities and creative ways to reach goals. Our Corporate Finance experts can assist CFOs at every aspects, offering support in corporate financing and treasury, M&A and deal, budgeting and financial planning, financial modeling and valuations, financial benchmarking, investor relations, amongst others.
Contact us so we can transform your financial operations into productive business value.
Who we serve
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Large Corporates / Conglomerates -
Mid-size firms -
Early-stage Start-ups
Support we offer
Collateral development
- Financing/refinancing of credit facilities & alternative financing
- Investor & corporate presentation
- Investment memo, etc.
Cash flow forecasting
Liquidity management
Working capital analysis
Risk analysis and reporting
Budgeting, planning and forecasting.
Variance analysis
Trend analysis
- Revenue
- Operating expense
- Capex
Financial modelling
- 3 statement models/ Operating models
Management reporting
- Regular updates (monthly, quarterly etc.)
- Identify business challenges, propose and create solutions.
Performance analysis
Accounts Receivables/ Payables support
- Reconciliation
- Proof cash analysis
- Journalizing daily payments / collections reports
- Reviewing and reporting month end closing balances and variance
- Expense dashboards
Deal Advisory Support
- Deal tracking
- Divestiture / exits supports.
- Competitors moves
- Board presentation
Deal support
- Target screening
- Target assessment
- Valuations
- Precedent transaction comps
Due diligence support
- Financial and commercial due diligence
Synergy analysis/ benchmarking
Investment and Divestiture Support
- Investment thesis
- Collateral developments
Valuations
- Discounted Cash Flow (DCF),
- Relative valuation
- Guideline company methods (GCM)
- Guideline transaction method (GTM)
- Sum of the parts (SOTP)
Financial Modelling
- 3 Statement model/ Operating model
- Financial feasibility model
- Merger model
- Accretion/ dilution model
- LBO model
Pre-money/ Post money valuation
Business plan
Information Memo/ CIM
Investor identification
- Investor Bios
Due diligence questionnaire
Investor/Bank presentation
Strategic Support & Monitoring
- Pre and post call perception analysis
- Financial press monitoring
- Design / Maintain internal stock price model
Content Support
- Industry analysis/white paper
- Call scripts
- Conference materials and publications
- CSR report creation
- Annual/quarterly updates and presentation
Support we offer
Collateral development
- Financing/refinancing of credit facilities & alternative financing
- Investor & corporate presentation
- Investment memo, etc.
Cash flow forecasting
Liquidity management
Working capital analysis
Risk analysis and reporting
Budgeting, planning and forecasting.
Variance analysis
Trend analysis
- Revenue
- Operating expense
- Capex
Financial modelling
- 3 statement models/ Operating models
Management reporting
- Regular updates (monthly, quarterly etc.)
- Identify business challenges, propose and create solutions.
Performance analysis
Accounts Receivables/ Payables support
- Reconciliation
- Proof cash analysis
- Journalizing daily payments / collections reports
- Reviewing and reporting month end closing balances and variance
- Expense dashboards
Deal Advisory Support
- Deal tracking
- Divestiture / exits supports.
- Competitors moves
- Board presentation
Deal support
- Target screening
- Target assessment
- Valuations
- Precedent transaction comps
Due diligence support
- Financial and commercial due diligence
Synergy analysis/ benchmarking
Investment and Divestiture Support
- Investment thesis
- Collateral developments
Valuations
- Discounted Cash Flow (DCF),
- Relative valuation
- Guideline company methods (GCM)
- Guideline transaction method (GTM)
- Sum of the parts (SOTP)
Financial Modelling
- 3 Statement model/ Operating model
- Financial feasibility model
- Merger model
- Accretion/ dilution model
- LBO model
Pre-money/ Post money valuation
Business plan
Information Memo/ CIM
Investor identification
- Investor Bios
Due diligence questionnaire
Investor/Bank presentation
Strategic Support & Monitoring
- Pre and post call perception analysis
- Financial press monitoring
- Design / Maintain internal stock price model
Content Support
- Industry analysis/white paper
- Call scripts
- Conference materials and publications
- CSR report creation
- Annual/quarterly updates and presentation
Client Testimonials
“We are overall happy with the work done so far on the model and the TAM studies. I believe communication was overall good.”
Founding member, EV start-up
“Thank you for your excellent help in completing the deck for our board review. We have given them a lot to think about so Let’s please take a pause till we get their feedback and then resume accordingly”
Head Strategy and M&A, Leading Research Administration Software
“Excited to let you know that today we are announcing acquisition of XYZ. Thank you for all the good work to help us make this possible”
Head M&A and Strategy, a leading Technology firm
How we are different
Strong Domain Expertise
Comprehensive understanding of firms
Financial Services Domain Experience
International delivery support centres
Flexible engagement model
What we have done
M&A Support on digital healthcare investment
What we are proud of
Facilitated successful entry in new markets by providing continuous support to the client
Identified and formulated scalable offerings with new and profitable business models in mid to long term strategy
Provided M&A Support on Downstream Oil & Gas Transactions
What we are proud of
Supported business growth, formulating strategies, etc. with real time contribution
Streamlined internal processes and helped identifying performance gap
Assisted in Acquisition of a Heat Pump Installation Company
What we are proud of
Significant cost saving – Better economies & coverage
Identified and analyzed growth opportunities in the target market
Provided fund raising support services to an Asian Waste Management Start-up
What we are proud of
Extensive support to client through modelling and valuation to seek funding from the investors
Insights on growth, profitability, and business model
Supported a global energy trading firm in Financing / Refinancing / Credit Facilities / Assets Securitization
What we are proud of
Significant cost saving – Better economies & coverage
Reduced turnaround time and Increased efficiency
Providing a real-time support to a financial services company for the Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) function
What we are proud of
Extensive real-time support to client for FP&A function
In depth analysis of revenue and cost drivers, especially for distressed / special situations.
Financial modelling and Valuation support to a European Sport Startup
What we are proud of
~50%
fully loaded costs of in-house resource
Provided extensive support to client during Seed and Series A round of funding
Assisted in Acquisition of an Automotive Data Analytics Company
What we are proud of
~45%
Cost savings through offshore support
Smooth execution of deal
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