2025 Finance Department Budget Key Metrics

Benchmark your finance budget allocations across functional categories to inform potential resource reallocation decisions

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Understand where your peers are allocating their finance budgets in 2025

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Gartner recently surveyed leaders from over 1,000 finance departments to determine where they are spending their finance budgets and where they expected to see their finance department budget change in 2025.

Download the survey results to explore:

  • Where CFOs are allocating their finance budgets across personnel, technology and external support spend categories
  • The distribution of finance budget across finance processes such as finance management, FP&A, controlling and tax
  • Areas of opportunity for finance department budget reallocation, increase and reduction

About the 2025 Finance Department Budget Report

This research originates from responses to the Gartner Finance Budget & Efficiency Benchmark and the annual Gartner Expected Budget Changes survey. As of publication, our dataset includes responses from 1,037 finance departments, representing globally headquartered organizations across key industries.

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