Strategy & Operations

Fed holds main interest rate steady despite accelerating inflation

Two policymakers on the Federal Open Market Committee dissented in favor of raising the federal funds rate by 0.25 percentage point.

By Jim Tyson • Updated 4 hours ago

Consumer confidence edges up on decline in gas prices: Conference Board

“The mood among consumers remains pretty bleak,” Pantheon Macroeconomics Chief U.S. Economist Samuel Tombs said.

By Jim Tyson • Oct. 27, 2026

Explore the Trendline➔

FP&A's evolution into CFOs' essential strategic asset

When FP&A works best, you get things like Amazon Prime. The trick is eliminating the friction in your planning function.  

By CFO Dive staff

Audit deficiency rate plunges due to training, oversight upgrades: PCAOB

Efforts in quality control, stricter accountability and use of technology have reduced the incidence of Part I.A audit deficiencies, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board said.

By Jim Tyson • Oct. 26, 2026

Agentic AI on financial data, wherever it lives

Agentic AI can transform close, audit and risk work, if it can reach your data where it lives.

By Joe Fuchs, Global Industry GTM Lead, Financial Services & Insurance • Oct. 26, 2026

Consumer sentiment dips on worries about affordability: UMichigan survey

“Consumers broadly expect inflation to accelerate,” a University of Michigan economist said, citing survey results.

By Jim Tyson • Oct. 23, 2026

Economy holds steady despite grim consumer expectations: Conference Board

For several months persistent inflation — fueled largely by the rising cost of energy — has eroded real household incomes and soured the mood of consumers. 

By Jim Tyson • Oct. 22, 2026

What the fintech cool kids are wearing

A business casual vibe informed the unspoken dress code at the Money20/20 conference in Las Vegas this week. The standouts chose suits.

By Maura Webber Sadovi • Oct. 22, 2026

SEC enforcement actions sink 57% below 8-year average: Brattle Group

Staff reductions at the Securities and Exchange Commission and the record-long government shutdown slowed enforcement last year, the Brattle Group said.

By Jim Tyson • Oct. 21, 2026

M&A soaring close to record level, fueled by rush into AI: Apollo’s Sløk

The fixation on AI has spurred dealmaking well beyond technology into companies involved in sectors essential for the AI build-out.

By Jim Tyson • Oct. 20, 2026

Big Four firms call on SEC to soften PCAOB quality control standards

The PCAOB revisions may receive a warm response from the SEC, which under Chair Paul Atkins has pursued several efforts to ease compliance burdens.

By Jim Tyson • Oct. 19, 2026

Payouts, talent and trust: What CFOs need to get right

See what 450 independent earners expect from payouts—and what those expectations mean for CFOs.

Oct. 19, 2026

Warsh says rise of AI will prove ‘very bumpy,’ trigger demand shock

“Earnings disappointments by AI developers could undermine expectations of future profitability, dealing a hit to equity prices,” IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said.

By Jim Tyson • Oct. 16, 2026

Producer prices surge at fastest pace since 2022, adding pressure on Fed

Soaring energy costs accounted for much of the leap in producer prices, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

By Jim Tyson • Oct. 15, 2026

CEOs eye C-suite shake-ups as pressures mount: BCG

Finance chiefs topped the list of senior leaders at risk of being replaced over coming months, the study found.

By Alexei Alexis • Oct. 14, 2026

Inflation speeds up to 3.7%, fueled by surging gasoline prices

Consumers expect inflation during the coming decade to average around 2.7%, the highest level since 2007, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

By Jim Tyson • Oct. 14, 2026

Small business optimism falls, hit by inflation, low labor quality: NFIB

“Fuel prices are killing us on our delivery trucks,” a retailer in Georgia told the National Federation of Independent Business.

By Jim Tyson • Oct. 13, 2026

Borrowing costs still too low to cool inflation, economists say in survey

Business spending will likely grow at a 12.6% annual rate this year before slowing to 6.2% in 2027, according to economists surveyed by Wolters Kluwer.

By Jim Tyson • Oct. 12, 2026

Tariffs pushed up consumer goods prices by 2.9 percentage points: NY Fed

Consumer expectations for inflation rose for the second straight month to the highest level since May, the University of Michigan said Friday, citing an October survey.

By Jim Tyson • Oct. 9, 2026

Deloitte fined $7.9M by UK regulator for failed audits

Deloitte UK’s “decisions and actions put very large amounts of U.K. taxpayers’ money at risk,” according to the top investigator at the Financial Reporting Council.

By Jim Tyson • Oct. 8, 2026

All Fed officials backed vote to hike benchmark rate: FOMC minutes

Inflation expectations among consumers rose last month for both the one-year and three-year time horizons, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Wednesday.

By Jim Tyson • Oct. 7, 2026

Tech hiring dips despite spike in job postings

Demand for technology roles reached a three-year high, as employers added more than a quarter million postings last month, CompTIA found.

By Roberto Torres • Oct. 6, 2026

US services sector slows, hobbled by tariffs, higher fuel costs

Growth in the services sector has helped sustain economic growth despite tariffs, the war with Iran and rising borrowing costs.

By Jim Tyson • Oct. 5, 2026

Chicken Salad Chick CFO’s path from burger grill to C-suite

GrubHub alum Drew Travis recently joined the Atlanta-based restaurant chain, which is expanding into West Virginia, New York and Michigan this year.

By Maura Webber Sadovi • Oct. 2, 2026

Jobless rate rises to 4.2%, reducing odds of Fed easing this month

Federal Reserve Vice Chair Philip Jefferson said a decision on whether to increase the benchmark interest rate “may take more time.”

By Jim Tyson • Oct. 2, 2026

Chief AI officers arrive in C-suites

Major corporations including Boeing, Eli Lilly and McDonald’s have added the roles since 2020, the report from Crist Kolder finds.

By Danielle McLean • Oct. 2, 2026