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CFO Quarterly Global Outlook Survey: February 2015

Chief Financial Officers entered 2015 with improved optimism towards the U.S. economy and their businesses, despite mounting concerns toward the global economy, revealed results of the most recent quarterly survey conducted by Financial Executives International (FEI) and Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business. While their employment and wage outlook remains positive, CFOs are fairly concerned about economic issues such as healthcare costs and government regulation, and see challenges to their businesses stemming from competition and the looming threat of a cyber-attack.
This quarter, the CFO Quarterly Global Outlook Survey, conducted by Financial Executives International and Baruch College's Zicklin School of Business, interviewed 113 corporate CFOs from the U.S. electronically from January 20 – February 15, 2015. CFOs from both public and private companies and from a broad range of industries, revenues and geographic areas, including some off-shore companies, are represented. The respondents are members of Financial Executives International. FEI has been conducting surveys gauging the country's economic outlook from the perspective of CFOs for more than 12 years.