Udsigterne set gennem CFO’ernes briller er blevet betydeligt mørkere det seneste kvartal, og det skyldes i høj grad de øgede geopolitiske risici. Sådan lyder konklusionen i det seneste internationale CFO Survey fra Deloitte, som præsenteres under overskriften ”CFO Sentiment Q3 2014: Geopolitical risks cast shadow”. I indledningen af undersøgelsen betones det markante stemningsskift, som er sket hos CFO’erne det seneste kvartal:
”What a difference a quarter can make. Three months ago, many finance chiefs seemed to be uniting in their shared optimism. In the Q3 edition of Global CFO Signals, however, uncertainty is on the rise in several of the 15 surveys featured, and geopolitical risks are giving companies pause. The result is a shift in sentiment in several countries. In Australia, for example, optimism fell for the second consecutive quarter. The number of CFOs in Switzerland reporting higher optimism (26%) is the lowest in two years. And German CFOs’ prospects for their own economy and businesses fell. In fact, for the first time since 2012, there are more pessimists than optimists regarding their business outlooks.”
