This IDC study uses the IDC MarketScape model to provide an assessment of a number of providers participating in the worldwide finance and accounting consulting services market. The IDC MarketScape is an evaluation based on a comprehensive framework and a set of parameters that assess providers relative to one another and to those factors expected to be most conducive to success in a given market during both the short term and the long term.

"Consulting providers have clearly customized their delivery methods to support a different consulting area. Though all firms leverage benchmark data, the rigor and scope of its application varies." — Cushing Anderson, program vice president, Business Consulting Services research