CFOs See AI as Top Risk and Opportunity

Are you working on a policy yet? Half your peers are.

By CPA Trendlines Research

If you’re in business – anywhere from accounting to manufacturing to retailing – you’d better buckle up because next year isn’t going to be like this year, let alone the year before.

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The BDO 2024 CFO Outlook Survey uncovered a startling change that occurred this year. Early in 2023, 71 percent of middle-market CFOs said supply chain disruption was their primary risk, economic volatility running a close second and geopolitical disruption a close third.

But artificial intelligence never made the top five. In fact, it isn’t even mentioned in that survey. Not once.

But 2023 was long, long ago.