Subsiding Omicron wave helped factory activity rebound last month in most major economies, but the Ukraine conflict is pushing oil, commodity, food, and shipping prices even higher.
Business leaders and analysts expect delivery bottlenecks and freight prices to ease in second half of this year, but supply chains may still not return to pre-pandemic days.
The pandemic exposed rigid budgeting and forecasting processes that couldn’t handle rapid changes. Armed with experience from last year, finance leaders share how they’re planning for 2022.
A focus on financial controls, moving to cloud-based applications, and supporting digital transformation and hybrid working are on CFOs’ priority lists.
