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

Q4 2026

Address the roadblocks shaping 2027 success

Gartner tackles the top CFO challenges from this quarter

As finance leaders plan for 2027, three priorities demand attention: driving smarter AI investments, sustaining employee engagement through change and building leadership teams ready to navigate growing complexity. 

Use this edition of The CFO Report to help improve AI investment decisions and address the top challenges shaping 2027 success:

  1. How can I manage the growing cost of AI use?
  2. How do I increase AI adoption in finance?
  3. How do I elevate my leadership team’s perspective to a more strategic level?

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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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