the one in charge of the cfo program is sandy cockrell, joins us in a fox business exclusive to discuss sandy, thanks for coming. first of all, what kind of companies are you surveying? >> these are the country's 100 largest companies, multinationals that trade around the world. david: there is optimism, particularly about internals. everybody is getting tight and good at cut cutting expenses. there is pessimism about sales growth. explain. >> what the survey said, cfos are forecasting 4.1% year-over-year sales growth. that is actually a survey low. we've run the survey four years, 15 quarters and that is the survey low. david: this is the smallest increase, there you see it, number three on that list there, sales growth, 4.1% but incredible thing that earnings are twice thaa. how can you double earnings of sales growth. >> great point. that is the trend. last few quarters of the survey. what we found is that the revenues have continued to pretty much flatten out but earnings have actually been pretty healthy. this quarter at 8.6% which is up a little bit from last quarter's survey low