Finance
Dec 21, 2022
Inflation, labor availability, and monetary policy are CFOs top concerns for 2023
U.S. financial executives are generally pessimistic about next year’s economy, saying they expect price growth to subside some in 2023 but still remain high.
They also report that wages at their firms have not kept pace with inflation, according to The CFO Survey, a collaboration between Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and the Federal Reserve Banks of Richmond and Atlanta.
The quarterly survey, which closed on December 2, found that CFOs’ median expectation is for input... read more
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