5 Tips to Get Your Sustainability Story to the Stakeholders Who Matter

Every year, companies spend tens of thousands of both dollars and hours collecting and verifying hundreds of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data points to produce thoughtful and beautiful sustainability reports. Writers and copy editors burn the midnight oil to create the ideal narra...

By Leigh Ann Johnston • Jan. 30, 2023

75% of CFOs Embrace Double Digit Spending Increases

With the unpredictability of markets reaching new highs, strong leadership skills from CFOs are increasingly needed amid 2023 strategy plans. Alongside strong leadership needs and high ambitions for growth is a desire to spend more in order to achieve that growth. Recent findings from the CFO All...

By Adam Zaki • Jan. 26, 2023

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Tax policy shifts: What CFOs need to know to stay ahead

Discover how evolving tax policies are creating new opportunities and challenges for CFOs.

By CFO.com staff

64% of CFOs Predict Net Profit Growth in 2023

The overall economy — and the issues it creates — are arguably the largest challenge for CFOs this year. Yet confidence to achieve growth is prevalent among financial executives, according to recent survey data from Grant Thornton. A majority of CFOs (64%) of the 246 surveyed said they predict ne...

By Adam Zaki • Jan. 25, 2023

2023 Recession Could Last 3 Quarters

If something’s going to be painful, it's easier to bear if it's of short duration, at least in some contexts. Economic recessions generally follow that rule, but not always. A short, deep recession can leave a lot of scars, as the pandemic one did. Long and relatively deep recessions are the wors...

By Vincent Ryan • Jan. 25, 2023

3 CFO Trends to Watch in 2023

As we begin 2023, we may hope to leave some disruptions behind us. Yet inflationary pressures, interest rates, and a potential economic downturn threaten as lingering and new forms of disruption. We can predict only one thing: that for the foreseeable future disruption is the new normal.  ...

By Wendy Stewart • Jan. 24, 2023

Raising Venture Capital in a Tight Economy: 5 Tips

Venture capitalists put $68.4 billion to work in early-stage investing in 2022, but the dollars are not flowing nearly as smoothly as they did in 2021. Just $10.7 billion was invested in early-stage transactions in the fourth quarter, less than half of the amount raised in the first quarter of...

By Vincent Ryan • Jan. 19, 2023

63% of Organizations Preparing for an M&A Deal This Year

Financial executives are putting their 2023 plans into action, comprised of a variety of different strategies. One that should make a comeback? Despite a recent slump in M&A, new Deloitte research suggests a majority of financial teams are planning on conducting some form of acquisition over ...

By Adam Zaki • Jan. 18, 2023

79% of Companies Face Challenges When Purchasing New Tech: Weekly Stat

As CFOs continue to grapple with the challenges fintech and SaaS products have brought into their workflows, new research indicates finance teams not only have different challenges surrounding implementation, but also in purchasing the technology itself. Findings from software developer ZIP’s Tre...

By Adam Zaki • Jan. 18, 2023

Value Drivers Series

"CFOs are the people that should be the custodians of value in a company.” Thus begins Reed Phillips' and Charles Slack's hypothesis, in this six-part series, that CFOs are the optimal leaders to set a path for creating future value. 

By Reed Phillips and Charles Slack • Jan. 17, 2023

2023 Outlook: 4 Charts to Watch

CFOs are number-centric, data-driven thinkers. Through our Wednesday newsletters, we have brought you extensive content surrounding data, statistics, and the corresponding trends emerging from that data. Below are four charts that provide outlook data we at CFO believe financial leaders should be...

By Adam Zaki • Jan. 11, 2023

Small Business Optimism Slips 2 Points

While the NFIB monthly small business owner survey is not a market mover, it’s a solid indicator of the SMB owner's viewpoint of macroeconomic conditions as well as the actions SMBs take in response to them.The sentiments of small business owners, after an uptick in November 2022, dipped again in...

By Vincent Ryan • Jan. 11, 2023

A CFO Action Plan for 2023

Many small- and medium-sized companies are still navigating through incredibly turbulent waters. We entered 2022 after enduring over 18 months of COVID-19 spikes. Throughout the year, we faced inflation, market uncertainty, the war in Ukraine, and other disruptions in addition to the lingering im...

By Steve McNally • Jan. 9, 2023

IPO Readiness: A 5-Step Public Preparedness Checklist

“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.” The adage has been credited to Benjamin Franklin, and while it’s unlikely he was talking about IPO readiness, the quote is nevertheless extremely appropriate to that process — especially given the current market context.  Patrick HanratyAnd that...

By Patrick Hanraty and Shauna Watson • Jan. 5, 2023

ESG in 2023: 3 Ways to Prepare for New Regulations

As investment in sustainable asset funds continues to rise, organizations face an array of new regulations in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. The new regulations will ensure the companies comprising these funds meet true environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG...

By Adam Moloney • Jan. 3, 2023

The 10 Most-Read CFO Stories of 2022

Below, you’ll find a list of the 10 most-read articles we published this year. Dealing with everything from spreadsheets and cybersecurity to core CFO skills and workplace monitoring, these are the most popular stories of the past 12 months.  To keep up all year long, be sure to sub...

By Lauren Muskett • Dec. 28, 2022

Inflation: Higher Costs Hit Hard in 2022

By the beginning of 2022, the consumer price index was already at 7.5% after 10 straight months of readings above 2%. Yet the U.S. was also only a handful of months past the Fed’s initial blasé reactions to historic price increases. The effective federal funds rate stood at only 0.08% on New Year...

By Vincent Ryan • Dec. 27, 2022

DocGo Aims to Deliver Cost-Efficient Medical Care

As of October of this year, the number of homeless New Yorkers sleeping each night in municipal shelters was 35% higher than 10 years ago. For mobile health care provider DocGo, COVID-19 was a chance to do some good for those people (while building a revenue stream).Through a program with NYC Hea...

By Vincent Ryan • Dec. 21, 2022

50% of CFOs Increased Net Spending in Q4 Despite Economic Concerns

As outlooks on 2023's economy continue to be mostly pessimistic among executives, major concerns surrounding the economy have resulted in CFOs finding ways to lower spending wherever possible. Things like inflation, labor quality, monetary policy, and sales revenue are concerns that resulted in C...

By Adam Zaki • Dec. 21, 2022

Private Equity Exits Down 57% in 2022

For private equity firms, 2022 has been a rough year. Take-private purchases of public companies have come to a virtual halt, as large transactions struggle to find debt financing. Funds are having to take markdowns on their investments. And sponsors are stuck holding companies that they would ha...

By Vincent Ryan • Dec. 21, 2022

CPI Inflation Falls to 7.1% YoY In November: Weekly Stat

Tuesday’s November inflation readings were a welcome pre-holiday gift. But hold off on excessive celebrations. The headline consumer price index rose 0.1%, down from 0.4% in October. Twelve-month CPI fell to 7.1%, the smallest increase since December 2021, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics ...

By Vincent Ryan • Dec. 14, 2022

Borrowers Face Tighter, Costlier Loan Terms

Billionaire Sam Zell probably doesn’t have trouble getting a bank loan. But one of the portfolio companies of his firm Equity Residential — a company he described as very well capitalized and an “A-” credit — recently “had the hardest revolver extension” that Zell’s firm has ever been involved in...

By Vincent Ryan • Nov. 23, 2022

U.S. Venture Capital Raised Falls 30% in Q3

A third-quarter downturn in venture capital (VC) dollars raised in the United States, particularly in later-stage deals and from nontraditional investors like asset managers, is the first evidence of distress in the VC ecosystem. The value of VC deals for the first three quarters of 2022 was stil...

By Vincent Ryan • Nov. 16, 2022

Leading Change Isn’t Only a Crisis Event

Change isn’t a new phenomenon. Executives recognize that every three-to-five years their industry will experience a shock requiring them to rally their strategy teams and design a new path forward. Once the executive team agrees on the new plan, tasks can be disseminated down the organization, an...

By Frank Hopson and Izabela Rak • Nov. 14, 2022

How CFOs Can Be Sustainability Leaders

Businesses should be careful not to let the legal and regulatory requirements being introduced in the sustainability disclosure arena to overshadow the need to embed sustainability into core business operations.To adequately incorporate sustainability factors into core operating functions, organi...

By Kevin Dancey • Nov. 10, 2022

4 Powerful Communication Strategies for Your Next Board Meeting

This whitepaper outlines four powerful strategies to amplify board meeting conversations during a time of economic volatility. 

By CFO Editorial Staff • Nov. 10, 2022