CCIS Survey: Worrying Increase of Input Costs at Nearly 83% of Surveyed Companies and Problems with Procurement
Nearly 40% of the subjects expect an unchanged turnover, only 12% expect a reduced turnover, but what’s worrying is the data that input costs have increased for 83% of the subjects compared to the end of 2021. Around 63% of the subjects have increased the prices of finished products and services, whereas 36% of the subjects have experienced no changes compared to the final quarter of 2021, says the announcement of the CCIS.
Companies display pronounced optimism for the second quarter of 2022 regarding export trends – 43% expect an increase in exports compared to the previous quarter, by 23%, whereas 44% expect an unchanged level. The biggest problem for the economy is the procurement and the price of resources. Of the total number of the subjects, 75% have enough funds for the optimal financing of the business operations, and the sector of electronic communications is the one with the biggest problems regarding liquidity, because, according to the results of the survey, 38% of the subjects from this field do not have enough funds for the optimal financing of their business operations.
Since the beginning of the year, employment has been stable, 87% of the subjects have either maintained or increased the number of workers, and as many as 95% of the subjects do not expect the reduction of the number of employees in the next period.
The results of the survey for the first quarter of 2022 point to a considerably more dynamic growth compared to the same period last year – in the first quarter of 2021, 22.1% of the subjects had an increased turnover, and 27.3% had the same turnover.
The challenge to the economic growth, which, according to the estimate of the National Bank of Serbia (NBS), has been revised down to 3.5% to 4.5% for 2022, is the inflation, which reached 9.6% in April. The NBS implements a restrictive monetary policy by raising the key policy rate to 2%, which is the basic instrument for reining in the relatively high inflation. The CCIS survey on the business activities of companies was realized in April 2022 on a sample of 1,552 companies which employ over 244,000 workers. According to the data from the financial reports for 2020, the companies from the sample realized EUR 19.5 billion in operating income, and according to the data of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia realized EUR 2.4 billion worth of goods export in the first quarter of 2022, which is 46% more compared to the same period in 2021. Around 18% of the companies from the sample have foreign founding capital.
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