CFO Advisory Services

Providing critical solutions to drive improvements across finance and accounting.

Whether you’re facing an M&A or capital markets transaction, mitigating a business disruption, or pursuing transformational change, Stout can bolster your strategic finance and core accounting functions with the resources and insight you need to optimize performance and deliver value.

We assist public companies, private equity portfolio companies, and privately held enterprises execute financial and operational improvement plans designed to maximize deal value, enhance performance visibility, streamline process, enable technology, mitigate risk, and optimize liquidity. Our professionals bring hands-on experience across a variety of industries and geographies.

How We Drive Value

• Operating Model and Roadmap: Establish a blueprint to modernize finance and accounting across organization, process, technology, data, and delivery model
• Operational Effectiveness & Performance Improvement: Reduce complexity, streamline and automate processes, enable technology, and balance service levels with cost
• Strategic Finance & FP&A: Enhance business insight through improved planning, reporting, modeling and performance visibility
• Transaction Advisory: Navigate the operational impacts of acquisitions, mergers, carve-outs, and IPOs to realize synergies and maximize deal value
• Interim Management: Provide experienced finance operators to support in times of transition
• Accounting Advisory: Accounting advisory services to meet changing compliance and regulatory requirements

Our Approach

Stout provides financial and operational expertise to help company management, Operating Partners, Boards of Directors, and shareholders maximize value at every cycle. Whether it’s preparing for a transaction, integrating a new acquisition, implementing process change, or driving growth during the hold period, Stout can bolster strategic finance and core accounting functions with the resources and insight needed to optimize performance, improve data visibility, and deliver results. Our professionals bring hands-on experience across a variety of industries and a pragmatic approach developed through direct corporate experience.