Since 2010 the Deloitte Central Europe CFO survey has enabled the opinions of more than 600 of the region’s Chief Financial Officers to be heard, providing an overview of their plans and concerns, the key threats and priorities they identify, their attitude to risk and the factors they currently consider vital for success.
In this year’s report, the region’s CFOs are broadly more optimistic than they were 12 months ago, when economies were in the harshest grip of the COVID-19 pandemic. While they still see uncertainty as the new normal, and do not regard this as the right time to take any unnecessary risks, they nonetheless remain positive about investment, expect unemployment to fall, and believe their financial outlook is brightening. In other words, the conditions for expansion are making a return. At the same time, they anticipate further rises in CPI inflation that in turn will fuel increases in the costs of doing business.
Since 2010 Deloitte has conducted the Central European CFO survey, giving voice to senior financial executives from across the region. The data for the 2022 report was collected between October and December 2021 and garnered responses from more than 600 CFOs in 15 countries and across a wide range of industries.