Recession impression on earnings: CEOs count on 10% hit to revenue from a recession

MUMBAI: A big majority of CEOs in India – 86% – predict that over the subsequent yr, recession will impression firm earnings by as much as 10%. On this yr’s KPMG India CEO Outlook, the place over 125 CEOs in India mentioned their methods, 66% anticipate a recession to hit over the subsequent yr, however 58% leaders count on the recession to be “gentle and quick”.

In keeping with the findings, 62% CEOs in India consider {that a} recession will upend anticipated development, with round one-third of the CEOs saying their firms have additionally applied a hiring freeze. Nonetheless, taking a longer-term view, 79% CEOs count on their organisation headcount to extend over the subsequent three years.

“Be it the enterprise ecosystem, or provide chain or points pertaining to expertise, the character and magnitude of those challenges has altered dramatically and what issues is how agile enterprise leaders are to reply. CEOs in India surveyed seem assured of their organisation’s resilience, additionally they appear to have ready themselves to profit from the present surroundings, introduced on by the promise of expertise, expertise and ESG,” mentioned Yezdi Nagporewalla, CEO, KPMG in India.

Senior executives in India exude extra confidence concerning the resilience of the worldwide financial system over the subsequent six months (82% CEOs in India in comparison with 73% CEOs globally) than they did in February 2022 (40% CEOs in India as towards 60% CEOs globally), when KPMG surveyed 500 CEOs for its CEO Outlook Pulse survey.

Sunil Kataria, CEO of

‘s Life-style Enterprise, mentioned, the resilience of Indian companies have elevated considerably with respect to any world macro components because the Covid shock served as a detox for all companies and led to hunting down of price inefficiencies, creation of extra optimum future practices and processes like adoption of digital applied sciences, and identification of recent vectors of development that may stability out core enterprise fashions.