What is Deloitte's Finance Trends 2027 report?

It is Deloitte's second annual finance leader and CFO survey, published 8 September 2026 in Deloitte Insights by David Anderson, Ed Hardy, Diane Ma, Timothy Murphy, Dave Turk, and Mojgan Vakili. The findings are based on a cross-industry survey of 1,434 finance leaders — CFOs or executives one level below — across 26 countries at some of the world's largest companies, supported by one-on-one interviews with 12 finance executives.

How much autonomy are CFOs willing to give AI agents?

Deloitte found 77% of finance leaders are comfortable with agentic solutions moving beyond recommendations into some form of autonomous decision-making, but only 14% are comfortable with fully autonomous agents for more critical decisions. Interviewees emphasised calibrating autonomy to risk and maintaining strong human oversight for higher-risk activities such as regulatory reporting and tax.

Why do finance teams say they cannot scale agentic AI yet?

42% of respondents say their agentic-AI ambitions exceed current capabilities because stronger controls must be established before scaling. Within that group, the most-cited barrier is lack of trust in AI output quality (41%) — an evidence and auditability problem rather than a model capability problem.

Do CFOs now own enterprise AI decisions?

Increasingly, yes. Asked which responsibilities they lead outside traditional finance, 54% of respondents cite cross-enterprise AI and technology capital allocation, 48% cite AI trust — ensuring reliable, accurate, explainable outputs — and 48% cite oversight of AI and technology spending and cost controls. More than two-thirds of those holding these responsibilities took them on within the past three years.

What does AI as an orchestration layer mean in finance?

In Deloitte's report, finance leaders describe AI connecting previously isolated enterprise systems and reducing manual reconciliation, rather than acting as a standalone question-answering tool. 46% of respondents plan to invest in modernising core ERP platforms or unifying finance, management, and tax data to support exactly that.

Deloitte Finance Trends 2027: Finance Is Becoming the Control Plane for Enterprise AI

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