Know where your finance function is keeping pace—and where it may be falling behind.
A short, practical self-assessment for leaders who want a clearer picture of how well finance is supporting the organization today—and where a closer look may be worthwhile.
Finance can be working—and still not be keeping pace.
Many organizations reach a point where the basics still get done, but leaders have less confidence in the information, visibility or support they need to make decisions.
The numbers arrive, but not always in time to act.
Reporting may be accurate enough for compliance while still providing limited help with decisions, cash needs or changing plans.
Finance depends too heavily on a few people or workarounds.
Growth, new funding, more programs or more complexity can expose gaps that were manageable when the organization was smaller.
Leadership senses pressure but cannot easily identify the source.
The issue may sit in day-to-day execution, planning, systems, decision support, sustainability—or in how several of those areas connect.
A simple way to see the whole finance function before deciding what needs to change.
Accelerate-U developed the Finance Health Scan from our work with growing and mission-driven organizations, our research into the pressures that emerge when organizational complexity outpaces finance capacity, and the finance capabilities we see leaders rely on as their organizations evolve.
The goal is not to tell you that something is wrong. It is to help you see where finance appears to be working well, where it may be worth strengthening, and where limited visibility may itself be getting in the way.
A directional view, not a generic score.
The Scan looks across the finance function without asking you to diagnose accounting or finance issues yourself.
What appears to be keeping pace
Recognize the parts of finance that are already supporting the organization well.
Where strengthening may help
Identify areas where gaps in visibility, capability or consistency could make leadership harder than it needs to be.
Where a closer look may be worthwhile
See whether a weak or unclear area may deserve deeper analysis before choosing a solution.
Short questions. A useful result. No finance expertise required.
Answer the Scan
Respond to 21 plain-language questions about how finance currently supports the organization. A progress bar shows how far you are through the Scan.
See your result immediately
Receive an overall Finance Health result plus a simple view of the areas that are Keeping Pace, Worth Strengthening, Need Attention or have Limited Visibility.
Get the fuller summary by email
If you choose, receive a more complete summary that also connects the result to the improvement you said would make the biggest difference.
The Scan shows where to look. It does not pretend to diagnose the cause.
A self-assessment can identify signals and patterns. Understanding why they exist, how they connect and what to prioritize requires a deeper review.
Finance Health Analysis
For organizations that want to go further, the Finance Health Analysis examines the underlying causes, cross-functional patterns and practical priorities behind the Scan result.
Get a clearer picture of where finance is today.
The Finance Health Scan is designed to help you identify where your finance function is keeping pace—and where strengthening it could make a meaningful difference.
Start the Finance Health Scan