Marketing & Comms Leaders Rate Their Financial Acumen: Overconfident or Spot On?
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Marketing & Comms Leaders Rate Their Financial Acumen: Overconfident or Spot On?

July 23, 2025

This report, based on results of the June 2025 CMO+CCO Meter, examines why marketing and communications leaders’ confidence in their own understanding of key elements of corporate finance does not translate into mastery of the budgeting process or deep partnership with finance leaders, and it offers tips from a July roundtable on how to elevate financial acumen.

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