The CFO Report: Gartner Answers Top CFO Challenges

Discover this quarter's top CFO challenges — and ways to address them.

The CFO Report: Gartner Answers Top CFO Challenges

Q1 2026

Integrate differentiation into your 2026 decision-making process

Gartner tackles the top CFO challenges from this quarter

Decision‑making in 2026 demands precision. Economic pressure, strained CEO relationships, and stalled AI adoption force CFOs to reassess how they drive enterprise impact. This quarter, CFOs must integrate differentiation into every major choice — from AI investments to cost priorities.

Use the latest edition of The CFO Report to strengthen decision-making and address the top 3 CFO challenges of Q1 2026:

  1. How do I identify AI use cases that deliver measurable financial outcomes?
  2. How do I manage conflict with my CEO?
  3. How should I prioritize costs to optimize while maintaining growth?

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Each quarter, The CFO Report provides Gartner answers to top CFO challenges and recommended actions to address each one. Based on timely discussions with finance leaders across industries, each issue explores different challenges that CFOs report they face today. From leading digital finance transformation through economic uncertainty to managing talent and technology, finance leaders can discover what their peers are thinking about and gain Gartner insight to stay ahead.

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