Becker's Healthcare December 26, 2023
CFOs were slightly more optimistic about the U.S. economy in the fourth quarter, with many expecting price growth at their organizations to remain above pre-COVID levels in 2024, according to results of The CFO Survey, a collaboration of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and the Federal Reserve Banks of Richmond and Atlanta.
On a scale from 0 to 100, the average CFO rating for optimism about the U.S. economy was 58.0, up from 56.2 in the third quarter, according to the survey. At an average of 67.3,, optimism about their own organization’s prospects remained higher than economic optimism, but fell from 67.8 in the third quarter.
“Alongside an increase in economic optimism, respondents’ expectations for national economic growth rose...