Blog – Durable Goods and Capital Spending – United States and the World Summary: Few orders for U.S. manufactured durable goods were virtually unchanged in the month of July, according to a report released by the Commerce Department on Wednesday. The Commerce Department said durable goods orders edged down by less than a tenth of a percent in July after surging by a revised 2.2 percent in June. Economists had expected durable goods orders to increase by 0.6 percent compared to the 2.0 percent jump that had been reported for the previous month. Excluding a pullback in orders for transportation equipment, durable goods orders rose by 0.3 percent for the second straight month. Ex-transportation orders were expected to inch up by 0.2 percent. Source: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/u.s.-durable-goods-orders-unchanged-in-july

1. Durable Goods and
Capital Spending –
United States
Paul Young CPA CGA
August 24, 2022

2. Paul Young - Bio
• CPA, CGA (1996)
• Academia (PF1, FA4, FN2, MU1. and MS2)
• SME – Customer Success Management
• SME – Risk Management
• SME – Close, Consolidate and Reporting
• SME – Public Policy
• SME – Emerging Technology
• SME – Business Process Change
• SME – Financial Solutions
• SME – Macro/Micro Indicators
• SME – Supply Chain Management
• SME – Data, AI, Security, and Platform
• SME – Internal Controls and Auditing
Contact information email: Paul_Young_CGA@hotmail.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-young-055632b/
SlideShare - https://www.slideshare.net/paulyoungcga
Twitter: https://twitter.com/paulyoungcpa
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/user/youngercga1968/videos

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Agenda
• Durable Goods
• Business Investment Outlook – 2021
• Supply Chain and Analytics
• Capital Ex Planning
• Blog – Supply Chain
• Blog – ESG Reporting

4. 4
Durable Goods / Key Areas – USA
Source - https://www.census.gov/economic-indicators/index.php
Durable Goods -
Census - USA.pdf

5. 5
USA Durable Goods
Source - https://economics.bmo.com/en/publications/detail/ce854a61-67f2-4173-a8c2-b4957f11cfea/

6. 6
Business Investment Outlook / 2022
capspendind.pdf

7. 7
Business Investment Outlook / 2021
Source - https://www.kiplinger.com/economic-forecasts/business-spending

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Capital Investment

9. 9
Supply Chain and Analytics

10. 10
Capital Expenditure Planning

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Blog – Supply Chain
Many thanks to Deloitte, MHI, Thomasnet for posting this survey.
It was a close race between the top four technology areas respondents said they are increasing supply chain resiliency
investments in:
 Inventory and network optimization — 54%
 Cloud computing and storage — 54%
 Robotics and automation — 53%
 Sensors and automatic identification — 52%
For more information, please see the following link: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/blog-need-resilience-amid-pandemic-
disruption-powering-paul-young/?published=t

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How to Build Resilient Supply Chain
• Blog – How to build a resilient Supply Chain using Data and AI
https://ibm.box.com/s/bqy9mr0ktlgi64sbf49o4rg5d9w0rqkn

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ESG Reporting
Blog - Accountant’s face challenges with ESG reporting -
Financial professionals are confronting some big obstacles when it comes to environmental, social and governance
reporting, according to a new survey, including competing and sometimes conflicting disclosure frameworks, reporting
methodologies and stakeholder demands.
The report, released Thursday by Financial Executives International’s Financial Education & Research Foundation, polled
53 chief accounting officers and controllers from some of the largest U.S. companies, and found that 53% of the
respondents indicated they had not yet started to integrate ESG reporting with their financial reporting, while 43% said
they had only just started to do so. Data is the biggest single challenge to ESG reporting, with questions related to
collection, collation, analysis and control among the biggest ESG-related data questions. The plethora of competing
standards and frameworks is also a big challenge, with 85% of companies using multiple ESG reporting frameworks.
Finance professionals reported they had a hard time hearing through all the noise and providing relevant, concise ESG
metrics in telling their organization’s ESG story.
Source - https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/accountants-face-challenges-with-esg-reporting
Templates: https://ibm.box.com/s/nsbds2s5v8znpwqzc03p9urykbat38w0
Presentation: https://ibm.box.com/s/vmyitcackqevvm1hcxv7wke6gudrpnce

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Summary
• Canada continues to lag other countries when it comes to attracting FDI.
• Canada lacks a coherent strategy when it comes to advance manufacturing as well as developing its natural resources
in a sustainable way.
• US federal government needs to address issues with both energy and food security
• Various states continue to push the Biden government on energy security
• Two years after COVID19 little strides have been made to build a resilient supply chain both domestically and
internationally
• Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Alabama, and Tennesee continue to key destinations for investment
• Progressive governments continue to push expensive social programs without considering how those programs impact
their fiscal gap and/or mean to their competitiveness!
BMO - https://economics.bmo.com/en/publications/detail/ce854a61-67f2-4173-a8c2-b4957f11cfea/
Durable Goods -
Census - USA.pdf
BMO - Durable
Goods - July 2022.pdf
Durable Goods -
Nasdaq - July 2022.pdf
Blog – Durable Goods and Capital Spending – United States and the World
Summary:
Few orders for U.S. manufactured durable goods were virtually unchanged in the month of July,
according to a report released by the Commerce Department on Wednesday.
The Commerce Department said durable goods orders edged down by less than a tenth of a
percent in July after surging by a revised 2.2 percent in June.
Economists had expected durable goods orders to increase by 0.6 percent compared to the 2.0
percent jump that had been reported for the previous month.
Excluding a pullback in orders for transportation equipment, durable goods orders rose by 0.3
percent for the second straight month. Ex-transportation orders were expected to inch up by 0.2
percent.
Source: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/u.s.-durable-goods-orders-unchanged-in-july
Oil and Gas - Capital
- Clean.pdf
Sasol and
Hydrogen.pdf
ALFS and Capital
Spending.pdf
Capital Spending -
SemiConductors.pdf
Climate Change and
Capital Spending - USA.pdf
IT Spending.pdf
USA and Public
Sector spending.pdf
Tax Free Savings
Account (TFSA) - Tax Shelter.pdf
Grid and EMEA.pdf Electricity Bills - Cost
of Living - United States.pdf
Power Grid and
Midwest.pdf
Automotive and
Capital.pdf
Government and
Critical Metals.pdf
Capital Spending and
GDP.pdf
1. Capital spending - https://www.alpsfunds.com/education/two-minute-tuesdays/adding-fuel-to-
a-hot-capital-spending-fire-20220823