More CFOs investing in tech upgrades to manage costs, survey finds

Savings could be around the corner for CFOs who invest more of their budgets in technology upgrades, the results of a new survey suggest.

Deloitte’s Q1 2026 North American CFO Signals survey identified cost management as the top internal risk facing 200 CFOs polled from organizations with at least $1 billion in annual revenues.

The CFOs voted for “automation or technology upgrades” as the lever that has proved to be most effective for controlling costs.

Along the same lines, a survey-high 49% reported that pressure to invest in new technologies such as the cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) was a factor driving their organization’s efforts to manage costs, just ahead of shrinking profit margins (48%). See more findings.