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The Conference Board predicts ‘significant slowdown’ in 2025

4 days ago | cfobrew.com | Alex Zank

CFOs (along with everyone else) are navigating a world raging with extreme uncertainty. The Conference Board might stoke the flames of anxiety a bit more with its newest set of economic indicators.
Putting risk management front and center in dealmaking

4 days ago | cfobrew.com | Alex Zank

Imagine all the things that could go wrong with an acquisition. Allow us to serve up some nightmare fuel:A large contractor buys a century-old HVAC business that complements its services. But over its storied history, the target company worked with asbestos, exposing the acquirer to costly legacy liability. A private equity-backed firm buys a closely held company. But integration does not go well: Nearly half the acquired firm’s employees quit out of fear of working for a PE portfolio company.
US retail sales were down again

1 week ago | cfobrew.com | Alex Zank

The latest US economic vibe check showed that people still aren’t feeling it. US retail sales slumped 0.9% in May compared to April (but were up 3.3% YoY), according to the Commerce Department. This marks the “second straight monthly drop” in retail sales, Reuters noted. The outlet added that these numbers, combined with marginal job growth in April and declines in manufacturing activity, hinted that “domestic demand was softening.”Vehicle and auto parts sales declined 3.5% from April.
Tariffs and AI won’t lead to a ‘jobpocalypse’

1 week ago | cfobrew.com | Courtney Vien

Manage equity without headaches. Running a company is a complex skill. Managing your cap table shouldn’t make it harder. Growing companies use Pulley to simplify equity management from fundraise modeling to tender offers. Master running your business with help from Pulley. Tired of economic doom and gloom? Dire AI jobs predictions getting you down? Concerned that the Big Beautiful Bill will turn out to be a Big Bearish Bust?
Private equity’s impact on public accounting remains a question mark

2 weeks ago | cfobrew.com | Alex Zank

Folks have strong feelings about what private equity’s entrance into public accounting means for the industry. A fresh set of data isn’t really helping settle the argument, either. A new survey of accounting pros from Inside Public Accounting and Rosenberg Associates found “no overwhelming consensus within the accounting profession on whether PE is a positive force.”The 163 respondents were divided “when asked whether PE is raising the competitive bar” in the sector.
The history of accounting’s cloud revolution

2 weeks ago | cfobrew.com | Courtney Vien

Accounting once ran on a whole lot of dead trees. Jim Bourke, a partner at accounting firm Withum who’s been with the firm since 1987, remembers those days. Before the cloud, if you asked your accountant for a copy of an old tax return, for instance, “it could be a couple of weeks by the time you get it,” he told CFO Brew. Staff would need to get it out of the physical file room at the office, photocopy it, and either mail it to you or have you pick it up, he said.
The top finance and accounting stories of 2025 (so far)

2 weeks ago | cfobrew.com | Alex Zank

No matter what you think of the last six months, at least you can’t say it’s been boring. In case you blinked, CFO Brew is here to provide a recap of the biggest themes in finance- and accounting-related news through the first half of 2025. A wild tariff ride.
Climate resilience offers a business advantage

2 weeks ago | cfobrew.com | Alex Zank

Manage equity without headaches. Running a company is a complex skill. Managing your cap table shouldn’t make it harder. Growing companies use Pulley to simplify equity management from fundraise modeling to tender offers. Master running your business with help from Pulley. Imagine two manufacturers operating in the Southeastern US. Both are aware of heightened flood risk in the region from climate change.
More CFOs now retooling, rather than eliminating, pension plans

2 weeks ago | cfobrew.com | Alex Zank

Recent history has not been kind to pension plans. The good news for employees who benefit from pensions is that after “a record number of plan terminations in recent years,” half of CFOs said they want to retool plans rather than eliminate them, according to a new survey from consulting firm Mercer. The organizations that planned to terminate their employee pension plans have done so, and the remaining ones are now figuring out how to make the numbers work, Mercer concluded.
World Bank reduces 2025 global growth forecast amid trade war

2 weeks ago | cfobrew.com | Alex Zank

Global trade tensions and whipsawing policies are “contributing to a deterioration in prospects across most of the world’s economies,” according to a new World Bank forecast that doesn’t mince words. In its Global Economic Prospects report, the financial institution projected global growth will slow to 2.3% this year, as a US-initiated trade war wreaks havoc worldwide. This is big if true, because 2.3% growth would be the slowest rate since 2008—and we all remember what happened around that time.