AICPA Economic Outlook Survey documents deep impact of pandemic
The AICPA released its quarterly Business & Industry Economic Outlook Survey yesterday and the results, unsurprisingly, weren’t pretty.
With commercial activity hobbled by pandemic-related restrictions, the CFOs, controllers, CEOs, and senior-level CPAs and CGMAs we poll reported that their companies in aggregate have slashed profit outlooks and pulled back hiring plans for the coming year. Our CPA Outlook Index – a comprehensive gauge of executive sentiment within the survey – dropped to its lowest level since early 2009, when the Great Recession was still in full bloom. Optimism in the U.S. economy is at its lowest ebb since late 2011.
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