Q3 CFO Outlook Jumps To Highest Level In Over a Year
Despite another rate hike expected this month, U.S. CFOs are optimistic the U.S. business landscape is on the path to recovery—and potential easing into 2024.
Despite another rate hike expected this month, U.S. CFOs are optimistic the U.S. business landscape is on the path to recovery—and potential easing into 2024.
Latest poll finds growing confidence among America’s finance chiefs that business conditions in the U.S. will improve in the year ahead—though forecasts are now more modest than they were at the beginning of the year.
There are plenty of caveats, but finance chiefs see a mild recession with a quick resolution, easing inflation, low unemployment and diminishing supply chain issues ahead.
In December 2021, StrategicCFO360 surveyed 127 CFOs from around the country on their predictions for 2022. Then came a war, record-high inflation and growing fears of recession. How did the predictions hold up?
Our latest polling data shows CFO optimism down double digits since the beginning of the year, as outlook for business conditions continues to wane.
August polling of U.S. CFOs shows America’s finance chiefs among least optimistic of the C-Suite, as majority expect business conditions to remain challenging for at least another year.