Top buyers, providers, and advisors of financial and administrative outsourcing.

by FAOT Staff

Back for a second time, the 2006 FAO Superstars list features the best of the best: 26 buyers, 24 advisors and opinion leaders, and 30 providers. Just like the FAO market, our list keeps getting bigger. We have included the major players who have been influential in the market’s growth, with F&A outsourcing growing at four times the rate of the overall finance and accounting market, according to the Everest Research Institute.

Like last year’s listing, we can’t herald the wonders of finance and accounting outsourcing without acknowledging the forefathers of the movement. History makers such as Ross Perot, James Brian Quinn, Barry Rand, and Gregg Hackett were early adopters and leaders who paved the way for the likes of Russ Fradin, Michael Janssen, David Narrow, Mimi Wolfe Strouse, and Atul Vashistha, just to name a few.

IDC’ estimated 2005 as a $98 billion market, and it is expected to keep expanding. This year’s 80 FAO wonders are helping to drive that growth with more contract signings, greater interest in multi-process FAO services, and an unquenchable thirst to find the answers to everything FAO related.

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2006 FAO SUPERSTARS