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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.