The first quarter CFO Survey revealed firms’ dampened optimism about the U.S. economy and lower projections for real GDP growth and equity market performance. At the same time, firms are hampered by hiring difficulties that are restraining revenue growth.
Brent Meyer, John Graham, Emil Mihaylov, and Sonya Ravindranath Waddell
Third and fourth quarter results from The CFO Survey point to widening constraints on labor supply and intensifying supply chain disruptions that are showing up as rising costs that could feed through to higher prices.
The economic recovery from the pandemic-induced downturn of 2020 has been swift in terms of overall spending. Could the recovery in spending be even stronger if labor shortages could be resolved?
Brent Meyer, John Graham, Roisin McCord, Emil Mihaylov, Nicholas Parker, and Sonya Ravindranath Waddell
Results from the second quarter CFO Survey indicate that, on average, firms expect larger than normal cost increases to persist until spring 2022. What does that mean for consumer prices?
Sonya Ravindranath Waddell, John Graham, Roisin McCord, Brent Meyer, Emil Mihaylov, and Nicholas Parker
First quarter survey results suggest that non-residential investment is likely to continue to be sluggish, at least over the next six months.
In this podcast, members of The CFO Survey team discuss the latest results of the survey and what makes the survey unique.
The results of our CFO Survey suggest that many firms anticipate that the fiscal stimulus will have only a modest impact on their own future business activity.
Business sentiment surveys like The CFO Survey help us understand firms’ hiring, spending and investment decisions.
Firms anticipate it will take some time to dig out from the shocking decline of the spring.
The second quarter CFO survey results paint a nuanced picture of how firms view changes in revenue and employment over the next 18 months.
In the second quarter CFO Survey, businesses were fairly pessimistic about the path of employment growth.
John Graham, Brent Meyer, Roisin McCord, Nicholas Parker, and Sonya Ravindranath Waddell
After almost 25 years of running the Duke/CFO Global Business Outlook survey, Duke’s Fuqua School of Business is joining forces with the Federal Reserve Banks of Richmond and Atlanta to launch The CFO Survey.
John Graham, Brent Meyer, Nicholas Parker, and Sonya Ravindranath Waddell
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