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A rising curve showing that the number of system pairs that can disagree grows faster than the number of applications a firm runs, with the average firm's ten applications marked at 45 pairs.

The Top Barrier to Advisory Work Is Data Cleanup. That Is an Integration Problem.

Thirty percent of accounting professionals name manual data cleanup as the top barrier to advisory work, ahead of staffing. The average firm runs ten applications and loses five hours a week to re-entry.
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Line chart of employee billable utilization across professional services organizations falling from 73.2 percent in 2021 to 66.4 percent in 2025, below the 70 percent minimum healthy benchmark.

Billable Utilization Fell to a 19-Year Low. The Top Firms Went the Other Way.

Billable utilization fell to 66.4% in 2025, a 19-year low, in a year revenue and margins recovered. The gap between high performers and the rest is not software ownership. It is system integration.
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