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5 Tips to Help CFOs Achieve Carbon Neutrality

5 Tips to Help CFOs Achieve Carbon Neutrality

Use this advice to implement successful business sustainability initiatives.

By Adam Moloney | September 28, 2022

80% of CFOs Expect Cost Pressures to Persist Into Next Year: Weekly Stat

80% of CFOs Expect Cost Pressures to Persist Into Next Year: Weekly Stat

Increased costs and poor labor pools are proving to be difficult challenges to CFOs, according to the Richmond Fed survey.

By Adam Zaki | September 28, 2022

SMBs Are Going Global: Don’t Ask Why, Ask Why Not

SMBs Are Going Global: Don’t Ask Why, Ask Why Not

For SMBs, tapping significant growth opportunities internationally isn't as difficult as it once was.

By Michael Levine | September 22, 2022

Fed Projected to Raise Interest Rates Another 0.75%

Fed Projected to Raise Interest Rates Another 0.75%

Federal Reserve officials are "under pressure to prove they are serious about stamping out elevated inflation."

By Vincent Ryan | September 21, 2022

How Finance and IT Can Collaborate for Growth

How Finance and IT Can Collaborate for Growth

Connecting finance and IT teams enables the CFO to provide strategic advice when IT purchases and implements new software.

By Adam Zaki | September 15, 2022

Core Goods Inflation Climbed 0.6% in August

Core Goods Inflation Climbed 0.6% in August

While gasoline prices fell, rising shelter and food costs as well as higher electricity and natural gas prices kept inflation high.

By Vincent Ryan | September 14, 2022

CFO Leadership: Navigating Volatility While Aiming for Growth

Growth Strategies

CFO Leadership: Navigating Volatility While Aiming for Growth

To create value from volatility, successful leaders are honing three types of edge: insights, commitment, and execution.

By Adam Zaki | September 9, 2022

CFO Conundrum: We Need Workers, But Can We Afford Them?

CFO Conundrum: We Need Workers, But Can We Afford Them?

Finance executives are playing a dicey game of shoring up their companies’ workforces in an era of high employment and runaway inflation.

By David McCann | August 31, 2022

Durable Goods Orders Flat in July: Weekly Stat

Capital Allocation

Durable Goods Orders Flat in July: Weekly Stat

The drop in manufactured durable goods orders was due to a 0.7% decline in transportation equipment.

By Vincent Ryan | August 24, 2022

Economists Doubt Fed Will Avoid Recession

Economists Doubt Fed Will Avoid Recession

But there are no signs yet the threat will deter the FOMC from fighting inflation aggressively.

By Vincent Ryan | August 23, 2022

N.Y. Manufacturing Business Conditions Index Dives 42 Points: Weekly Stat

N.Y. Manufacturing Business Conditions Index Dives 42 Points: Weekly Stat

New orders and shipments plunged in August, unfilled orders declined, and inventories edged higher, according to the state's manufacturing executives.

By Vincent Ryan | August 17, 2022

How the Real Estate Industry Is Addressing ESG Compliance

How the Real Estate Industry Is Addressing ESG Compliance

Commercial real estate may be ahead of most industries on the ESG adoption front, given the inherent wastefulness of most office buildings.

By Ted Jackson | August 9, 2022

GDP Contracts 0.9%, Fed Raises Rates 0.75% As Tightening Cycle Continues

GDP Contracts 0.9%, Fed Raises Rates 0.75% As Tightening Cycle Continues

"The Fed has a high pain threshold to get inflation back to target," warned analysts.

By Vincent Ryan | July 28, 2022

9.1% CPI Inflation Will Pressure Fed: Weekly Stat

9.1% CPI Inflation Will Pressure Fed: Weekly Stat

"This report keeps the Fed on course and is consistent with our call for an inflation-driven mild recession in the second half," said BofA economists.

By Vincent Ryan | July 13, 2022