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Eurozone economic outlook, June 2023

Persistently high inflation and ongoing geopolitical uncertainties will likely result in a modest but fragile recovery in the Eurozone economy in 2023.

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CFO Dinner 2023

We are looking back on a successful CFO Dinner event with good food, speakers and CFOs. Click here to view the aftermovie! Below you can find more details about the event and outcomes.

Perspectives

The CFO Agenda 2023

Ask CFOs who sets their agenda today, and the will mention the CEO, shareholders, employees, customers, suppliers, the board of directors, the environment, international conflicts, and rapid technological changes. These changes also bring new opportunities.

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Going Real-Time

Finance is thriving to make faster fact-based decisions to meet the ever-increasing customer demand, market uncertainty and performance pressure. We have invited five Finance leaders to share their views on how they are making use of real-time insights to enable real-time finance reporting, create insights and improve results.

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The Great Industrial Repositioning

The phrase ‘perfect storm’ may be a bit over-used lately, but it does accurately describe the situation that European industries are currently in. Several economic and political developments have led to this perfect storm.

CFO Survey

European Deloitte CFO Survey Autumn 2022

The Autumn 2022 European CFO Survey looks at economic trends in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. CFOs have shifted away from post-pandemic expansionary plans towards more defensive strategies. Their greatest concerns are energy costs, the effects of inflation and a shortage of skilled labour.

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CFO Dinner 2022

To gain further insights into the CFO Dinner 2022 with the theme: "Putting sustainability at the core", we invite you to read the recap, which provides an in-depth overview of the event and its highlights.

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CFO Dinner 2022 interviews

During the CFO Dinner, we spoke with Chris Figee, Isabelle Damen, Frits van Zijdervelt and Pim Berendsen about sustainability. Click the button below to watch the interviews and learn what these CFOs have to say about sustainability.

CFO Survey

Economic outlook & predictions from Europe’s CFOs

As 2021 draws to a close, and with the number of COVID-19 cases still high, how do Europe’s CFOs see the prospects for the economy and their businesses in the year ahead? What are their intentions for capital spending and hiring? How concerned are they about supply shortages and rising inflation?

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How CFOs can help implement strategies around diversity, equity, and inclusion

We’ll explore how finance leaders can help make DEI a priority, from raising the appropriate questions about a potential acquisition to choosing financial institutions for partnership.

Report

Finance 2025 Revisited: Finance trends shaping the future

The digital disruptions that informed our thinking about finance trends several years ago have accelerated. And all signs suggest they’ll continue to do so. Our new Crunch time report takes an in-depth look at what we know now about the future of Finance.

Blog

The link between sustainability and tax will need to be stronger

Companies all across the world are contemplating on how sustainability affects them and how they can contribute to achieving the climate goals. Helene Geijtenbeek and Patrick van Min, Tax Partners at Deloitte, see that their clients are absolutely willing to take action. And yet, they do not make the connection with tax, or do not do so enough.

CFO Journal

Deloitte X WSJ

Deloitte’s Insights for CFOs provides financial executives a customized resource to help them address the strategic, operational and regulatory issues they face in managing their finance organizations and careers, with top-line digests, research, perspectives and technical analyses.

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How CFOs can make their IT inheritance less taxing

The five remaining considerations helping devise ways to improve collaboration and to realize the value of technology investments

Survey

Financing a sustainable transition

CFOs in Europe open up on sustainable finance

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You have just inherited IT, now what?

In this edition of CFO Insights, we’ll explore how CFOs can approach the challenge of effectively managing IT to increase returns.

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CFOs find benefits from ESG investing

Why CFOs should consider ESG focus for competitive advantage

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Finance 2025: Digital transformation in finance

Our eight predictions about digital technology for CFOs

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Relationships and resilience: The interpersonal realm

Why effective communication is the key to authentic connections

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Building Resilience

How C-suite executives can not only bounce back, but bounce up from adversity

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CFO & Sustainability

How CFOs can help companies weather climate change

Report

Europe's turning point

Accelerating new growth on the path to net zero

Report

Targeting procurement: Why CFOs should take direct aim at indirect spend

How can CFOs and CPOs collaborate to gain control over such spending? Who should be accountable for bringing robust management to it? And why is this a propitious time for CFOs to take on this challenge?

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Finance 2025: Looking ahead with the benefit of hindsight

Which challenges and concerns should CFOs consider prioritizing? How can companies better use data to construct a more accurate vision of the future? And what might be the best way to prepare now for 2025?

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Welcome to the "no normal": Exploring The Transformation Myth

We’ll explore the drivers of this new era of serial transformation, the characteristics common to companies that have the ability to continuously transform, and what kind of mindset it takes for a CFO to be a transformational leader.

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Provoking the future: How CFOs can take action to illuminate uncertainty

We’ll explore what companies may have to do to strip away their individual and organizational blinders in order to widen their view of the horizon

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Return trip: How companies are rethinking travel for the long term

We’ll look at the timing and nature of business travel’s return, leveraging research conducted by Deloitte’s Consumer Industry Center.

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Why trust should be one of your key performance indicators

A statistically verified approach for measuring trust across different operating domains

Report

CFOs as the driver of sustainability

Why CFOs should take the lead

Report

Seek and you may find

How CFOs can manage sustainability risks and create long-term value

Podcast

Insights on responsible business

Listen to business leaders discuss their challenges and experiences in becoming more responsible businesses, towards an outcome that is better for all stakeholders, better for long term shareholder value and better for society as a whole.

Practical Guides

The Crunch time series for CFOs

Practical guides to modernizing the finance function. Whatever your interest, one thing is clear: From cloud computing and robotics to analytics, cognitive technologies, and blockchain, a new class of digital disruptors is transforming how the work of Finance gets done.

Report

The catalyst effect of the finance function on decarbonization

Since carbon tax been officially announced, Dutch companies need to act. The tax will significantly impact the competitive environment, and at the same time offer new opportunities for purpose-led organizations. In this report, we will explore how internal carbon pricing will accelerate a low-carbon future.

Contacts

Mohamed Bouker

Partner Finance & Performance
Leader CFO Program

mbouker@deloitte.nl +31 (0)6 15 52 87 43

Rianne Jans

CFO Deloitte Netherlands

rjans@deloitte.nl +31 (0)6 19 60 81 30

Anne Brenninkmeijer

CFO Program Manager

abrenninkmeijer@deloitte.nl +31 (0)6 28 68 36 19

Carlijn Broerse

CFO Program Consultant

cbroerse@deloitte.nl +31 (0)6 29 65 30 26

Liesbeth Berfelo

CFO Program Consultant

lberfelo@deloitte.nl +31611857492

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