The topic has roiled global markets this year, especially in Athens where Greek banking stocks have seen erratic intraday movements. Last week provided further key developments with proposals for an extension to Greece’s loan agreement being rejected by Germany.

Jesper Brandgaard, the chief financial officer of Danish pharma firm Novo Nordisk, told CNBC Monday that the whole situation surrounding Greece perfectly typifies the challenges currently being faced by European corporates.

“I do hope that the Greek government will be sound in its response to the very sensible approach taken by the European finance ministers and it will lead to a clear and transparent road forward,” he said.

On Sunday, Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis was due to send draft reform proposals to the International Monetary Fund and EU institutions following a deal on Friday to extend the country’s rescue program by four months.

There has also been talk of capital controls for Greece to stem the outflow of cash and emergency liquidity has also been provided to keep the country’s banks afloat. Despite progress made last year, the Syriza Party has hopes to overhaul the nation’s bailout program with European institutions, alleviate its debt burden. and try to reduce austerity in a country that has been gripped by high unemployment.

None of the CFOs surveyed believed that Greece would stay in the bloc under the terms of its 240 billion euro ($270 billion) bailout, while 17 percent believed that it was still too soon to say either way. Additionally, one respondent predicted that Greece would be existing outside the euro zone, “on its own,” by this time next year.

Mohamed El-Erian, the chief economic adviser at German-based Allianz, told CNBC on Tuesday last week that a Greek exit from the euro would cause “short-term chaos,” but stated that it would not bring the global economy to its knees. On Thursday last week, Hans-Werner Sinn, president of the Munich-based Ifo Institute for Economic Research, told CNBC that Greece’s creditors needed to “face the truth” and realize the country is bankrupt and advocated a return to the drachma for the struggling euro zone nation.

Fifty-one CFOs from Europe and also Asia make up the CNBC CFO Global Council survey. Both groups were asked about government involvement in business operations and how big a say regulators had in their individual industries. 61 percent of respondents said that government involvement was too large, 22 percent even said that they “strongly agreed” that policymakers were too involved with the way they do business. Just 11 percent disagreed with the statement.

Regulators have been stepping up their efforts in recent years, especially in the financial sector which has been picking up the pieces after the global financial crash of 2008. Financial watchdogs have been keen to show they are picking up on misdeeds but other sectors have also felt the full force of the law. Last week, General Electric’s 12.4-billion-euro ($4.08 billion) bid for Alstom’s power equipment business came under the microscope, according to Reuters who cited three people familiar with the matter. The news agency said the deal is likely to face a full-scale investigation by EU antitrust regulators.

Meanwhile, it appears that global companies are growing wiser to the threat of cybercrime that has already hit high-profile firms such as Sony and JPMorgan. Of the CFOs surveyed, 61 percent said that their companies had tested or audited its existing infrastructure in the last six months so as to reduce its vulnerabilities to cyber threats.

A further 11 percent said they had replaced or upgraded their existing hardware or software while over 5 percent had increased their staffing numbers to tackle the growing problem.