Expect Chinese businesses to boost overseas investments, but not necessarily where they have put their money in the past decade, research by the Economist Intelligence Unit suggested.
Just 28% of CPA decision-makers in business and industry say they are optimistic about the US economy for the next 12 months, and fewer than half are optimistic about their own companies.
The results of a recent PwC survey might not appear to be particularly alarming: the percentage of organisations that experienced economic crime in the previous 24 months was down, albeit only slightly. Scratch beneath the surface, however, and it doesn’t take long to find signs of trouble.
Over-regulation and geopolitical instability are the threats of greatest concern to CEOs in 2016, and these factors contributed to a sharp decline in confidence in global economic performance for the year ahead, according to a report by PwC.
Financial chiefs are more inclined to spend on research and development despite economic worries abroad—a scenario that highlights the increasingly complex job of the finance chief: balancing innovation and costs.
The International Business Compass ranks 174 countries by economic, regulatory, and labour force conditions to allow small and midsize enterprises interested in expanding their export business or their overseas production a first look at new markets.
Finding good workers and finding ways to keep them is a struggle for US finance decision-makers. The mood of respondents in a new survey by the American Institute of CPAs is generally upbeat, with regulation and talent concerns continuing to top the list of challenges.
Finance executives in business and industry continued to express slightly lower confidence about their own businesses and about the US economy. Sentiment remains positive overall, according to a new survey.
British voters have been promised their say on whether the country should remain part of the European Union in a referendum due to take place by the end of 2017.
Global foreign direct investment dropped 16% in 2014, but multinational companies and other large investors saw substantial growth opportunities in East and Southeast Asia, according to a 2015 United Nations study.
Optimists still outnumber pessimists by a wide margin, but overall sentiment amongst US finance executives in business and industry is flat compared to this time a year ago.
Sixty-one per cent of workers in fast-growth markets believe that bribery and corruption are widespread in their country, according to an EY report focused on Europe, the Middle East, India, and Africa. With pressure on companies to find new pockets for revenue growth, fraud concerns remain high.
A global survey by Deloitte shows that employee engagement is a rising concern and that organisations seem to be falling behind as they try to re-imagine ways to manage and develop their workforce.
Overall optimism amongst US finance executives in business and industry took a slight dip, but sentiment remains positive compared with previous first quarters in the post-recession era, a new survey shows. Optimism in most sectors is up year over year.
In the US and UK, small pay increases are predicted, and Europe overall is also on the rise, but high inflation is hurting some emerging economies, according to Hay Group research.
US finance executives show more interest in spending than amassing cash, seeing opportunities in the economy but also feeling the need to keep up from a technology and talent standpoint.
Business leaders’ attention is shifting to geopolitical tensions and societal instability, which dominate the World Economic Forum’s 2015 list of top global risks. Find out how multinationals are likely to prepare for these emerging risks.
