2025 Q1
Each year, Gartner surveys hundreds of finance leaders to understand their critical focus areas for the year ahead. Cost management, talent and technology topped CFOs’ list of priorities for 2025.
In the Q1 edition of The CFO Report, we provide three related strategies that can help you address the top finance challenges of the year:
1. How can I reduce costs without harming growth?
2. How do we retain and engage key finance talent?
3. What steps can I take to improve my organization’s data governance?
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 actionable Gartner insight to stay ahead.