CFO Articles

What are the trends and current thinking about cash flows, financial strategies, capital allocations, mergers & acquisitions, restructuring of businesses, post-merger integrations and other elements of corporate finance and risk?

As in spring 2024, a majority of Swiss CFOs rate the outlook for the Swiss economy over the next 12 months as positive. There is greater disparity in their rating of the economic outlook for Switzerland’s main trading partners: optimistic about the US economy, despite a perception of high levels of political risk, but pessimistic about the outlook for China and Germany. The corporate outlook over the next 12 months remains largely positive and has actually improved slightly since this spring. Nonetheless, lower expectations for discretionary spending and investment indicate that companies are increasingly cautious.

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