CPA Canada Business Monitor: Capturing the pulse of Canadian business

The CPA Canada Business Monitor captures the business expertise and strategic insight of professional accountants in corporate leadership roles.

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CPA Canada’s Business Monitor offers you a valued snapshot of the business insights of professional accountants in leadership positions.

It captures the emerging views and perspectives of the Canadian business community. These individuals not only know the nuts and bolts of their respective companies, they also see and understand the bigger picture affecting their business and the economy as a whole.

BUSINESS MONITOR RESULTS

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Economic pessimism significantly outpaces optimism among top Canadian business leaders: CPA Canada survey

Canadian business leaders are more than three times as likely to express pessimism about the Canadian economy than optimism.

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Increase in economic optimism stalls, rising interest rates seen as biggest challenge to economic growth: CPA Canada Business Monitor (Q3 2023)

Economic optimism among business leaders surveyed by CPA Canada is starting to decline, reversing a trend of increases earlier this year, indicating a view that the economy may be softening.

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Economic optimism climbing despite recession expected this year: CPA Canada Business Monitor (Q2 2023)

Optimism is climbing among top business leaders surveyed by CPA Canada, even as a majority of respondents continue to expect a recession this year, suggesting economic resiliency amid lingering inflationary wage and interest rate pressures.

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Recession likely this year: CPA Canada Business Monitor (Q1 2023)

More than two-thirds of executive level CPAs believe there will be a recession in Canada this year, according to the recent Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada) Business Monitor (Q1 2023) survey.