The real cost of running eight systems
Most growing local companies do not buy one system. They accumulate seven or eight, then employ people to move data between them. This report puts a number on that overhead — licence fees, reconciliation labour, delayed decisions and the errors nobody catches until audit.
The cost of a fragmented stack is rarely on any invoice. It shows up as headcount, as delay, and as decisions made on numbers that were true three weeks ago.
Overview
Most growing local companies do not buy one system. They accumulate seven or eight, then employ people to move data between them. This report puts a number on that overhead — licence fees, reconciliation labour, delayed decisions and the errors nobody catches until audit.
You'll learn how to
Quantify the reconciliation labour hidden in your month-end
Identify which of your systems are duplicating the same records
Estimate the decision delay caused by stale management accounts
Build the internal case for consolidating onto one data model
Key takeaways
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Reconciliation work consumes 4-9 days of finance time every month.
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Duplicated master data is the single largest source of reporting error.
- 3
Consolidation typically retires three to four systems within six months.
The cost of a fragmented stack is rarely on any invoice. It shows up as headcount, as delay, and as decisions made on numbers that were true three weeks ago.