CFOs Forecast Better When Finance Sees More

The competitive advantage today isn’t forecasting tomorrow’s cash more accurately. It’s having less of today’s cash left to forecast. Data in the August 2026 edition of The 2026 Certainty Project , a PYMNTS Intelligence report in collaboration with Fynapse, shows that 62% of middle-market finance executives have struggled to manage or scale cash flow forecasting, while 37% identify it as their single biggest finance or back-office challenge.