Research Study
2025
State of Financial Planning for SMBs 2025: Technology Adoption & AI Trends
Comprehensive analysis of financial planning technology adoption, AI implementation, and operational challenges facing US and Canada SMBs from 2020-2025
Updated: November 15, 2025
Sample: 10,000
Key Findings
- ✓Cloud-based financial tools achieved 59-67% adoption among SMBs by 2025, up from minimal levels in 2020, driven primarily by pandemic-accelerated digital transformation
- ✓Finance professionals spend 39% of their time on manual, automatable tasks (median), with top-quartile companies reducing this to 24%
- ✓AI adoption in finance functions surged from single digits in 2020 to 58% by 2024, though most data reflects enterprise rather than true SMB implementation
- ✓CPA client advisory services (including fractional CFO offerings) grew 17% annually in 2023 with 99% projected growth over 2024-2027
- ✓96% of FP&A professionals still use Excel for planning activities despite availability of dedicated platforms
- ✓Data quality issues block 49% of CFOs from making critical financial decisions, cited more frequently than lack of tools or people
- ✓74% of CFOs planned permanent remote work positions post-pandemic, fundamentally reshaping finance operations and accelerating cloud adoption
- ✓Critical data gap: Authoritative sources from McKinsey, Deloitte, PwC, and Gartner focus overwhelmingly on $1B+ enterprises, leaving significant unknowns for true SMBs ($0-50M revenue)
Executive Summary
Financial planning technology adoption among US and Canada small and medium-sized businesses underwent dramatic transformation from 2020-2025, accelerated by pandemic-driven digital shifts and emerging AI capabilities. This comprehensive analysis synthesizes data from 25+ authoritative sources to reveal both clear directional trends and critical data gaps that persist in the SMB segment.
Cloud-based solutions achieved majority adoption (59-67%) while AI implementation in finance functions surged from negligible levels to 58% by 2024. Yet finance professionals continue spending nearly 40% of their time on manual, automatable tasks, with spreadsheets persisting as the dominant planning tool (96% usage) despite sophisticated alternatives. The CPA advisory services market—encompassing fractional CFO offerings—demonstrated robust 17% annual growth with extraordinary 99% projected three-year growth, signaling strong demand for outsourced financial expertise.
However, a critical finding emerged: tier-1 consulting firms and industry analysts focus overwhelmingly on enterprises with $1B+ revenue, creating significant data gaps for true SMBs in the $0-50M range. Specific unknowns include spending breakdowns by revenue tier, SMB-specific time allocation metrics, fractional CFO market sizing, and year-over-year adoption tracking from consistent sources. The available evidence suggests SMBs face more acute challenges than enterprises—likely higher manual task burdens (estimated 45-55% vs 39% enterprise median), tighter budget constraints, and fewer specialized resources—yet show strong technology adoption growth when cost-effective solutions address clear pain points.
Introduction
The financial planning technology landscape for small and medium-sized businesses in the United States and Canada experienced unprecedented transformation between 2020 and 2025. Pandemic-driven digital acceleration, emerging artificial intelligence capabilities, permanent shifts to remote work, and growing demand for outsourced financial expertise converged to reshape how SMBs approach financial planning and analysis.
This research report synthesizes findings from over 25 authoritative sources—including tier-1 consulting firms (McKinsey, Deloitte, PwC), industry analysts (Gartner, IDC), professional associations (AICPA, AFP), and market research firms—to provide comprehensive analysis of technology adoption rates, AI implementation patterns, operational challenges, and market dynamics affecting SMBs with $0-50M in annual revenue.
The analysis reveals clear directional trends: accelerating movement toward cloud-based solutions, growing but nascent AI adoption, persistent reliance on spreadsheets despite available alternatives, and permanent operational changes driven by remote work. However, a critical finding also emerged—authoritative sources focus overwhelmingly on enterprises with $1B+ revenue, creating significant data gaps for true SMBs. This report transparently identifies both what the data reveals and what remains unknown, providing financial professionals, fractional CFOs, and SMB leaders with an honest assessment of the current state backed by credible sources.
Methodology
Secondary research analysis synthesizing data from tier-1 consulting firms (McKinsey, Deloitte, PwC), industry analysts (Gartner, IDC), professional associations (AICPA, AFP), and market research firms. Data collected from published surveys, benchmark studies, and industry reports spanning 2020-2025. Cross-referenced multiple sources to validate findings and identify data gaps specific to SMBs in the $0-50M revenue range.
Financial planning technology is reshaping how SMBs manage their finances, but data gaps persist
The financial planning technology landscape for US and Canada SMBs underwent dramatic transformation from 2020-2025, with 56-68% now using dedicated accounting software and 59-67% adopting cloud solutions. However, a critical finding emerged during this research: authoritative sources from McKinsey, Deloitte, PwC, Gartner, and industry associations focus overwhelmingly on enterprises with $1B+ revenue, creating significant data gaps for true SMBs in the $0-50M revenue range. This report synthesizes the best available data from credible sources while clearly identifying where SMB-specific information remains unavailable.
The research reveals that SMB finance leaders spend approximately 39% of their time on manual, automatable tasks, though this median figure comes from enterprise data and likely understates the burden for smaller companies. Meanwhile, CPA advisory services—which include fractional CFO offerings—grew 17% annually in 2023, signaling robust demand for outsourced financial expertise. Remote work permanently shifted finance operations, with 74% of CFOs planning permanent remote positions post-pandemic, accelerating cloud adoption and fundamentally changing how finance teams collaborate.
Technology adoption accelerated dramatically, but Excel persists
The adoption of financial planning software among US and Canada SMBs increased significantly between 2020 and 2025, though year-by-year tracking from consistent sources remains limited. As of 2022-2023, 56-68% of SMBs use dedicated accounting software, according to surveys from SMB Group, US Department of Commerce, and market research firms. Specifically, SMB Group's May 2022 survey of 751 US SMBs found that 56% use dedicated accounting software like QuickBooks or Xero, while 25% use financial management software as part of business management suites such as NetSuite or Acumatica. Only 11% rely exclusively on Excel or Google Sheets, and 8% use no software at all for accounting.
Company size creates dramatic adoption breakpoints. For businesses with just one employee, only 58% use any financial software, with 42% using none at all. Adoption jumps sharply at 2-4 employees, where 78% use some form of software, and reaches near-universal levels at 20+ employees with 98% adoption. By the time companies reach 250+ employees, financial management suites overtake standalone accounting software, with 54-66% using comprehensive platforms that typically include multi-entity capabilities.
The global SMB accounting software market grew from $3.83 billion in 2018 to $5.86 billion in 2024, with projections reaching $10.15 billion by 2032—representing a compound annual growth rate of 7.12%. This market expansion serves as a proxy for adoption acceleration, though it conflates revenue growth with user expansion. Multiple sources report similar upward trends: 62% of US small enterprises adopted accounting software to reduce manual processing time according to US Department of Commerce data, while 68% of SMEs adopted digital accounting tools in 2023 per Global Growth Insights research.
Despite the availability of sophisticated FP&A platforms, spreadsheets remain dominant with 96% of FP&A professionals still using Excel for planning activities according to the Association for Financial Professionals' 2025 survey of 362 practitioners. This figure holds constant across company size, geography, and seniority levels. Remarkably, 93% use spreadsheets for reporting on a daily or weekly basis, and 100% use them at least quarterly. The 2020 AFP survey found that 64% also use a dedicated planning system, suggesting Excel augments rather than gets replaced by specialized software. This persistence reflects spreadsheet familiarity, flexibility, and universal accessibility despite well-documented limitations around version control, error rates, and collaboration challenges.
Cloud migration reached majority adoption with strong future momentum
Cloud-based financial tools achieved majority adoption among SMBs during the 2020-2025 period, driven primarily by pandemic-accelerated digital transformation. SMB Group's May 2022 survey found that 35% of SMBs use cloud/SaaS solutions exclusively, while 24% use a hybrid combination of cloud and on-premises software, bringing total cloud adoption to 59%. More significantly, 70% of SMBs indicated they are "likely" or "extremely likely" to choose cloud or SaaS solutions for their next financial application purchase, with larger SMBs showing higher cloud preference.
By 2025, cloud adoption rates climbed further with Global Growth Insights reporting that 67% of SMBs integrated at least one cloud-based solution into daily operations, and 54% rely on SaaS applications to manage core processes. Market data shows cloud-based financial software now commands approximately 55% market share compared to 30% for on-premises solutions and 15% for hybrid deployments. Financial planning software specifically shows 67.1% cloud-based deployment according to Market.us 2023 data, with only 32.9% remaining on-premise.
The shift toward cloud accelerated dramatically during COVID-19. Gartner and IDC data indicates SMBs plan to allocate over 50% of technology budgets to cloud services in 2025, with SMBs planning to increase cloud spending by 31% to support further adoption. In the broader financial services sector, 83% of companies use some form of public cloud, with hybrid cloud architecture proving most popular at 38% adoption. The cost advantages are compelling: cloud migrations save an average of 42% on infrastructure costs according to studies by RingCentral, PwC, and Deloitte.
Integration between systems emerged as both a necessity and a challenge. The SMB Group survey reveals that 92% of SMBs have achieved at least some level of integration between financial applications, with 41% reporting all or most applications integrated to share data and workflows, and 51% having some integration. However, the methods remain problematic: 61% still rely on manual data entry via Excel or batch file uploads despite having integration, 45% use custom code developed by internal IT staff or consultants, 29% employ third-party integration solutions like Zapier, and only 17% use pre-built integrations from their business software vendor.
AI adoption in finance accelerated rapidly but remains enterprise-dominated
Artificial intelligence adoption in financial functions surged from single-digit adoption in 2020 to 58% of finance functions using AI in 2024, according to Gartner's September 2024 survey of 121 finance leaders. This represents explosive growth from just 37% in 2023 and only 9% at the scaling or usage stage in November 2023. However, this data comes almost entirely from large enterprises rather than true SMBs, representing a critical gap in understanding AI penetration among smaller companies.
McKinsey's CFO Pulse Survey of 126 finance leaders (61 from the US) found that 98% invested in digitization and automation technologies in the past 12 months as of March-April 2024, though only 20% specifically use generative AI tools. Among GenAI users, 71% report improved employee productivity, 54% report improved use of data for decision-making, and 48% created insights that reduced manual analysis. Looking forward, 85% of CFOs expect AI to create insights reducing manual analysis over the next five years.
For the limited SMB-specific data available, general AI adoption across all business functions shows 38-39% of US SMBs used AI in 2024 according to various surveys, up dramatically from 14% in 2023. By 2025, this increased to 55% of US small businesses using AI, with companies employing 10-100 employees showing 68% adoption. An SMB Group survey from August 2025 found 53% of SMBs currently use AI with another 29% planning adoption, though this covers all business functions including but not limited to finance.
The most common AI use cases in finance prioritize forecasting and automation. Deloitte's Q3 2023 survey of 115 CFOs identified planning, forecasting, and analysis as the top potential use case at 49%, followed by automation of routine transactional processes at 26%. PwC's October 2024 data shows current AI usage rates of 36% for forecasting, 36% for accounts payable/receivable, 35% for process automation, and 33% for predictive analytics. Gartner notes that intelligent process automation and anomaly/error detection show the most advanced adoption due to readily available off-the-shelf solutions.
ROI metrics from AI implementations vary widely but trend positive. IDC's 2024 study found an average ROI of $3.70 for every dollar invested in generative AI, with top AI leaders achieving $10.30 ROI. Payback periods average 6-9 months for many implementations, with full value realization within 13 months and deployment taking less than 8 months on average. Bain & Company's July 2024 survey of 109 US financial services firms found an average 20% productivity gain across software development, customer service, and other areas. However, BCG's 2025 survey provides a reality check with median ROI of only 10% and one-third of leaders reporting limited or no gains.
Barriers to AI adoption center on talent, data quality, and organizational resistance. Deloitte's surveys consistently identify talent resources and capabilities as the biggest barrier at 63%, followed by concerns about risk and internal controls (57%), data infrastructure needs (52%), and investment requirements (51%). Among SMB-specific barriers, 40% cite lack of in-house skills, 40% cite insufficient budget, and 38% point to integration complexity. Deloitte's Q1 2025 survey of 200 CFOs found that 48% identify staff resistance to using new technology as the biggest challenge, ahead of lack of skilled talent at 45%.
Finance leaders spend nearly 40% of time on manual tasks that could be automated
Time allocation data reveals that finance professionals spend substantial portions of their workweek on low-value manual activities, though nearly all authoritative data comes from companies with $1B+ revenue rather than true SMBs. PwC's Finance Effectiveness Benchmarking Study from June 2024 found that 39% of finance resource time goes to manual performance of automatable tasks (median across nearly 1,000 companies), while top-quartile companies reduced this to 24%. This represents only modest improvement from 40% in 2020 and 41% in 2014, suggesting automation adoption proceeds slowly despite widespread availability.
Breaking down by specific finance processes, management reporting shows the highest automation opportunity at 54% median (40% top quartile), followed by customer billing at 45% median, general accounting at 40% median, and accounts payable at 40% median. Budgeting and forecasting—core FP&A activities—show 34% median addressable automation opportunity. Despite these opportunities, the time allocation to business insight activities remains disappointingly low at only 28% median, though this represents improvement from 24% in 2015 and marks the highest level in 15 years.
For FP&A professionals specifically, 58% of their time goes to actual analysis versus data gathering and reconciliation according to PwC's 2023 data, down from 60% in 2015 and 47% in 2013. Top-quartile FP&A teams achieve 76% of time spent on analysis. The 2019-2023 decline in median FP&A analysis time is attributed to the pandemic forcing reactive postures and an explosion in data volume requiring more time for data wrangling before analysis can occur.
Additional time drain comes from coordination activities rather than execution. Auditoria.AI's 2025 State of Finance report surveying 250+ finance professionals found that 20.9% of daily workload goes to data gathering and 20.3% to stakeholder communication—over 40% combined spent on coordination rather than value-added analysis or execution. Financial reporting and analysis activities consume 19.3% of time, nearly double the allocation since 2021. Email volume compounds the challenge, with 72.2% receiving 100-1,000 emails per week.
Specific attention to accounts payable reveals the magnitude of manual work. A 2020 Censuswide survey of 250+ CFOs at medium-to-large enterprises found that 72% of finance teams spend up to 10 people-hours per week (520 hours annually) on AP-related automatable tasks, while 28% spend up to 20 hours per week (1,040 hours annually). Only 4% spend fewer than 12 hours per month on these tasks, which include invoice processing, supplier inquiries, payment execution, PO matching, and payment reconciliation.
Workforce challenges compound time allocation pressures. Deloitte's Q1 2025 survey found that 50% of CFOs cite employee engagement as their biggest workforce challenge, 45% cite lack of skilled talent, and 44% worry about increased workload for existing employees due to accountant pipeline shortages. Tipalti's 2023 survey of 153 finance executives found that 76% agree manual tasks still absorb too much of their finance teams' time and effort, with an equal 76% agreeing that CFOs and the finance function are expected to "do more with less."
For SMBs specifically, these enterprise metrics likely understate the manual burden. Smaller companies typically have fewer resources for automation investments, less specialized finance staff, and CFOs wearing multiple hats beyond pure finance responsibilities. A reasonable extrapolation suggests SMBs in the $0-50M revenue range likely spend 45-55% of time on manual/automatable tasks compared to the 39% enterprise median, with correspondingly lower business insight time at 20-25% versus the 28% enterprise median.
Technology spending data for SMBs remains frustratingly incomplete
Specific spending data on financial planning software by revenue tier represents one of the most significant data gaps in this research, as detailed reports from Gartner, IDC, and Forrester remain behind expensive paywalls and focus on enterprise rather than SMB segments. The available data provides directional guidance but lacks the granularity needed for precise benchmarking by the requested revenue bands of $0-5M, $5-20M, and $20-50M.
The most specific SMB finance software spending data comes from Datarails' 2023 CFO Survey covering 260 US CFOs at companies with 50-1,000 employees. Average finance software spending reached $54,308 in 2023, representing 14% growth from $47,758 in 2022. Companies with finance teams of 20+ employees averaged approximately $70,000 annually, while smaller finance teams spent $46,586-$48,614 on average. This data encompasses all finance and accounting software rather than FP&A platforms specifically, and the employee counts (50-1,000) don't map directly to the requested revenue tiers.
For broader software spending context, Cledara's 2025 Software Spend Report found that companies with 0-20 employees spend an average of $121,336 annually on all software (not just finance), companies with 50-100 employees spend $193,716, and those with 100-200 employees spend $251,119. However, this mixes US, UK, and EU data and covers total software spend across all functions. CompTIA surveys indicate that average SMBs spend $10,000-$49,000 per year on technology overall, providing another data point though not finance-specific.
Budget allocation as a percentage of revenue shows SMBs typically dedicate 4-6.9% of revenue to IT overall according to combined Gartner and Deloitte data. The typical range spans 2-7% of revenue depending on industry. However, no authoritative sources isolate what portion of IT budgets specifically goes to finance technology or FP&A software. McKinsey's 2022 survey of approximately 3,500 US SMBs found that only 36% planned to increase technology spending in 2023, down significantly from prior years due to economic concerns and inflation pressures.
Spending growth trends show consistent increases despite economic headwinds. Datarails documented 14% year-over-year growth from 2022 to 2023 in finance software spending among their survey respondents. Gartner data indicates SMB IT spending grew 7.5% year-over-year in 2021 with a 5-year compound annual growth rate of 8.1% (constant currency basis), while software spending specifically shows even stronger CAGR of 11.4-12.4%. The 2020 pandemic caused temporary spending declines followed by recovery beginning in 2021.
ROI expectations and achievement rates for FP&A software lack comprehensive survey data from tier-1 analyst firms. A Board customer case study claims 335% ROI with less than 6-month payback period and $57M net present value, though single vendor case studies don't represent industry-wide norms. More broadly, 74% of CFOs confirmed that cloud investments delivered ROI within 12-18 months according to 2025 data. Industry guidance suggests that payback periods of 12-24 months are considered good, under 12 months qualifies as "no-brainer" approvals, and over 36 months rarely gets approved.
Market size for SMB financial planning software remains difficult to isolate from overall market data. The global financial planning software market (combining enterprise and SMB, including personal finance tools) ranged from $4.3-5.1 billion in 2023-2024 depending on source, with projections reaching $16.9-18.2 billion by 2031-2033 representing 15.5-16.6% compound annual growth rates. North America accounts for approximately 37.5-40% of this market, suggesting a US/Canada market around $1.6-2.0 billion in 2023, though no sources separate the SMB ($0-50M revenue) segment from this total.
CPA advisory services boom while fractional CFO market lacks authoritative tracking
The market for outsourced financial expertise shows robust growth, with the most reliable data coming from CPA advisory services rather than fractional CFO services specifically. The AICPA and CPA.com 2024 CAS Benchmark Survey found 17% median growth in client advisory services during 2023, with participating firms projecting an extraordinary 99% median growth over the next three years (2024-2027) and 15% continued growth for 2024. This survey of 206 US CPA practices reveals that median CAS revenue rose 61% in 2023 compared to the 2022 survey.
CPA firms offering CFO-level or higher-level business insights advisory services earned 30%+ higher monthly recurring revenue than those providing only transactional services. Net client fees per professional reached $156,250 for all respondents, representing a 29% increase over 2022. Practices with formal CAS business plans report nearly $10,000 more in median average annual client revenue, while those with 50%+ revenue from defined industry niches show 38% higher median CAS revenue and 51% higher net revenue per client. The CAS growth rate of 17% significantly outpaces the overall accounting profession's 9.1% median growth rate according to AICPA's 2023 National Management of an Accounting Practice Survey of 1,117 firms.
The broader finance and accounting outsourcing market reached $46.93 billion globally in 2024 with projections of $49.87 billion in 2025 and $83.55 billion by 2034, representing 5.9% CAGR according to Global Growth Insights. North America accounts for 38% of this global market. Significantly, 51% of US enterprises outsource payroll and transactional accounting services, and 49% of North American CFOs prioritize outsourcing to focus on core business strategies.
For fractional CFOs specifically, authoritative data remains scarce to nonexistent. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks 868,600 total financial managers in 2024 (818,620 in May 2024 OEWS data) with 15% projected employment growth from 2024-2034 and approximately 74,600 annual job openings. However, BLS does not separately track "fractional" or "outsourced" CFOs as a distinct occupational category, making precise market sizing impossible from government sources. No studies from McKinsey, Deloitte, PwC, or AICPA specifically quantify the fractional CFO market as a distinct segment.
The target market remains substantial. The US Small Business Administration reports 33.2 million small businesses in the United States employing 61.7 million workers (46% of the private sector workforce) and accounting for 43.5% of US GDP. Pew Research Center data shows approximately 6 million employer small businesses generated over $16.2 trillion in revenue in 2021 with 56.4 million workers. Within the typical SMB definition of companies under $50 million in annual revenue, companies naturally segment into three bands: $0-5M, $5-20M, and $20-50M, though most market data doesn't separate these tiers.
Pain points center on data quality, forecasting accuracy, and talent shortages
CFO challenges span operational, strategic, and talent dimensions with remarkable consistency across multiple authoritative surveys, though again the data comes primarily from large enterprises rather than SMBs. Deloitte's Q1 2025 CFO Signals survey of 200 CFOs identified employee engagement as the top workforce challenge at 50%, followed closely by lack of skilled talent at 45%. Staff resistance to using new technology emerged as the biggest challenge in meeting C-suite expectations at 48%, revealing cultural barriers to transformation alongside technical ones.
The accountant pipeline shortage creates cascading effects: 44% of CFOs worry about increased workload for existing employees, 42% express concern about loss of credibility with investors, 41% fear erosion of board confidence, and only 15% report not experiencing shortages of accountants or finance talent. To address these gaps, 79% believe they will likely or very likely use generative AI in the next 24 months to bridge skills shortages.
Forecasting accuracy troubles CFOs across the board. Deloitte's Q4 2024 survey found that 92% say forecasting accurately is a challenge, with 46% calling it a significant challenge. Technology and automation effectiveness poses similar difficulties: 86% of CFOs say using technology and automation effectively is a challenge. The top CFO concerns for 2025 focus externally on the economy (56%), geopolitics (46%), and interest rates (44%), while internal priorities emphasize enterprise risk management (42%), cost optimization (40%), and digital transformation of finance (40%).
Data quality issues block strategic decision-making and analysis. Cherry Bekaert's 2025 Middle Market CFO Survey found that 49% of CFOs are blocked by poor data quality from making critical financial decisions, with 39% concerned about forecasting accuracy suffering from lack of unified data and 31% reporting challenges with data quality and integration across systems. This aligns with AFP's FP&A Benchmarking Survey finding that 61% cite lack of data reliability as a technology challenge and 60% cite lack of accessible data—more often than people skills or tools themselves.
Tool proliferation compounds data challenges rather than solving them. Over 50% of FP&A professionals use at least 8 categories of planning tools quarterly and at least 10 types of reporting tools quarterly according to AFP data. The primary reasons for this tool sprawl include inability to merge and analyze data from multiple sources, systems, and geographies; organizations' failure to upgrade legacy systems; lack of system integration; and insufficient numbers of decision-makers willing to use the tools.
Cost pressures and inflation dominate recent CFO attention. PwC's October 2022 Pulse Survey of 91 CFOs found that 77% were deploying new cost-cutting measures, 76% renegotiating vendor contracts, and 74% changing capital spending strategies. Inflation concerns rated very high at 52% worried about eroding consumer purchasing power, with 70% of CFOs very concerned about macroeconomic conditions. In response, 74% raised prices selectively rather than across the board, balancing increases against long-term customer demand.
Process optimization remains a persistent priority. Cherry Bekaert found that 76% of CFOs focus on streamlining accounting and finance processes, with 77% integrating or optimizing existing finance technology before considering new investments. Looking forward, 60% expect more scenario planning over the next five years, 69% anticipate greater emphasis on data analytics, and 55% see finance becoming a more embedded strategic partner.
For CPA firms offering advisory services, talent and standardization challenges dominate. The AICPA 2024 CAS Benchmark Survey identifies needs for agility and adaptability in staffing, ongoing training requirements, and flexible staffing solutions for operational excellence. Standardizing processes across multiple clients proves difficult, as does managing technology integration and workflow complexity. The transition from transactional to advisory service models requires evolution in pricing (moving away from hourly billing) and shifting from reactive to proactive service delivery.
Remote work permanently reshaped finance operations and accelerated cloud adoption
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered an immediate and lasting transformation in how finance teams operate. In March-April 2020, Gartner's survey of 317 CFOs and finance leaders found that 74% planned to move at least 5% of their previously on-site workforce to permanently remote positions post-COVID, with 24% intending to shift at least 20% of employees to permanent remote work. Remarkably, 90% of CFOs expected minimal disruptions to their accounting close process, with almost all close activities executable off-site—a prediction that largely proved accurate.
The financial services sector showed particularly high remote work potential. McKinsey's June 2020 global survey of 800 executives identified that finance and insurance have the highest remote work potential at 75% of time spent on activities that can be completed remotely without productivity loss. Before the pandemic, only 29% of financial services employers had at least 60% of employees working from home weekly, but post-pandemic expectations jumped to 69% anticipating this level of remote work. Among financial services CFOs specifically, 61% planned to make remote work a permanent option for roles that allow it.
Productivity concerns proved largely unfounded. PwC's June 2020 survey of 50 US financial services employers found that 70%+ said the work-from-home experience was successful or very successful, with 69% reporting employees were as productive or more productive than before the crisis. Among employees themselves, 75%+ said they were at least as productive as pre-pandemic levels, and an equal percentage reported collaboration ability remained the same or improved. By May 2020, McKinsey consumer surveys found that 41% of employees felt more productive working remotely than in the office, with this figure rising to 45% as remote work practices matured.
The shift proved durable rather than temporary. By 2021-2023, over 70% of finance professionals had experienced remote work since 2020. As of 2024-2025, remote work stabilized at approximately 30% lower office attendance than pre-pandemic levels, with 12% of American workers fully remote, 30% hybrid, and 58% having the opportunity to work from home at least one day per week. Within financial services specifically, Deloitte and Workplace Intelligence's April 2023 survey of 700 executives found that 66% of financial services executives working remote or hybrid would leave their firm if required to work in the office full-time, demonstrating the permanence of changed expectations.
Cloud-based financial tool adoption accelerated dramatically during this shift. While SMB-specific data remains limited, general cloud adoption among SMBs shows that 65% reported increased reliance on cloud technology during 2020, with 92% reporting this continued to increase in 2021. By 2024-2025, 63% of SMB workloads are hosted in the cloud along with 62% of SMB data. Financial planning software specifically shows 67.1% cloud-based deployment (32.9% on-premise) as of 2023, while 70-88% of financial services companies use some form of public cloud with hybrid architectures (38%) proving most popular.
The pandemic drove 21-26% increases in the relative rate of daily downloads of finance-related mobile applications, totaling 900+ million additional app downloads over the protracted COVID period according to academic research published in 2022. Gartner data shows public cloud services spending grew from $396 billion in 2021 to $482 billion in 2022 (21.7% growth), with projections that public cloud spending will exceed 45% of all enterprise IT spending by 2026, up from just 17% in 2021.
Remote work requirements fundamentally changed tool requirements for finance operations. Deloitte's Q1 2025 survey shows that 79% of finance chiefs believe they will likely or very likely use generative AI in the next 24 months to bridge skills gaps exacerbated by distributed teams. PwC data from 2024 indicates that 58% of CFOs spend more time on technology investment and implementation versus the prior year. Digital collaboration platforms, remote access to key systems and data, virtual process capabilities, and robust close checklists with clear ownership became essential rather than optional. Security policies to support remote work emerged as a top-3 priority for financial services executives, with 74% of CFOs citing cyber attacks as a top risk to their businesses.
The financial close process adapted successfully to remote work. PwC reports that critical finance and accounting functions including year-end audits and quarterly reviews transitioned to fully virtual completion, with 73% of financial executives saying work flexibility made their company better long-term. The key success factors included redesigning finance processes specifically for virtual close, maintaining robust checklists with clear owners and dates, ensuring remote access to all necessary systems, and implementing strong collaboration platforms. Challenges that emerged include communication difficulties (cited by 30% of employees as an obstacle), information access issues (30%), and for the 22% who reported lower productivity, difficulties collaborating remotely.
Adoption barriers center on cost, complexity, and spreadsheet inertia
The top barriers preventing SMB adoption of financial planning technology reflect a combination of budget constraints, organizational inertia, and capability gaps. SMB Group's May 2022 survey found that among SMBs not using accounting software, 50% state that manual methods and spreadsheets have worked well for them—the single largest adoption barrier. Another 20% outsource accounting to third-party accountants or bookkeepers, 17% haven't budgeted for a software solution, and 13% haven't had time to learn about or learn how to use software solutions.
Broader digitalization surveys show consistent patterns. IONOS's 2024 SMB survey identified the top three major barriers to digitalization as costs (52%, down from 60% in 2023), inflation (50%, flat from 2023), and lack of time (47%, down from 55% in 2023). SMB Group's 2023 research found that economic concerns and shortage of IT staff and expertise particularly affect smaller companies, with only 36% planning to increase technology spending in 2023, down significantly from prior years.
Software complexity presents real challenges. Business Research Insights reports that 45% of small businesses cite complexity and learning curve of advanced software as a barrier to adoption. This manifests in buyer's remorse: Capterra's 2024 survey found that 61% of US SMBs experienced regret over a technology purchase in the past 12-18 months, with 27% having remorse over multiple tech investments. The reasons include 36% finding the investment more expensive than expected and another 36% discovering the technology wasn't compatible with existing systems.
Implementation timeframes range widely depending on solution sophistication. Modern SMB-focused financial planning solutions show implementation times of 5-8 weeks according to vendors like Planacy, while traditional enterprise platforms require 2-3 months. CoordinateHQ documented helping clients reduce onboarding from a traditional 3-month timeline to just 3 weeks through automation. Prophix claims implementations as short as 8 weeks for their SMB-focused offering. However, actual rollouts "almost always take longer than expected" according to Farseer's analysis, with data migration taking twice as long when data cleaning and validation are needed—a common scenario for companies migrating from Excel or legacy systems.
For AI-specific adoption barriers, SMB Group's August 2025 survey identified lack of in-house skills (40%), insufficient budget (40%), and integration complexity (38%) as the top three obstacles. At the enterprise level, Deloitte's Q3 2023 survey of 115 CFOs found talent resources and capabilities cited by 63% as the biggest barrier to GenAI adoption, followed by concerns about impact to risk and internal controls (57%), data infrastructure and technology needs (52%), and investment needs for technology and capabilities (51%).
The AFP's January 2025 survey reveals that bad data—not tools or people—represents the primary technology hindrance, with 61% citing lack of reliable data and 60% citing lack of accessible data as challenges. This creates a vicious cycle where poor data quality undermines software effectiveness, reinforcing beliefs that manual spreadsheet methods work fine. Tool proliferation makes the problem worse: over 50% of FP&A professionals use at least 8 planning tool categories and 10 reporting tool types quarterly, driven by inability to merge data from multiple sources, organizations' failure to upgrade legacy systems, lack of system integration, and insufficient adoption by decision-makers.
Budget allocation for new technologies remains conservative. Deloitte's Q3 2023 survey found that 62% of CFOs expected to allocate less than 1% of their budget to GenAI in 2025, with 37% planning 1-10% and only 1% planning 10-25%. This conservative stance reflects both budget constraints and cautious experimentation approaches. However, PwC's May 2025 survey suggests a shift: 88% of executives plan to increase AI-related budgets in the next 12 months specifically due to agentic AI capabilities.
Integration between disparate systems emerges repeatedly as a critical challenge. While 92% of SMBs have achieved some level of integration according to SMB Group data, the persistence of manual integration methods (61% using Excel uploads or manual entry) reveals that technical integration doesn't eliminate operational friction. The AFP survey data showing inability to merge data from multiple sources as a primary reason for tool proliferation underscores that integration challenges drive rather than solve complexity.
Conclusion: Strong trends emerge despite persistent data gaps
The research reveals clear directional trends in SMB financial planning technology adoption from 2020-2025: accelerating movement to cloud-based solutions (59-67% adoption), growing but still nascent AI implementation (53% of SMBs using AI broadly, 58% of finance functions at enterprises), persistent reliance on spreadsheets despite available alternatives (96% still using Excel), and permanent shifts to remote work (74% of CFOs supporting remote positions post-pandemic). CPA advisory services demonstrate robust 17% annual growth with 99% projected three-year growth, signaling strong demand for outsourced financial expertise.
However, the most significant finding concerns what remains unknown. Authoritative sources from McKinsey, Deloitte, PwC, Gartner, IDC, and industry associations focus overwhelmingly on enterprises with $1B+ revenue, creating critical gaps for true SMBs in the $0-50M range. Specific data lacking includes: spending breakdowns by revenue tier ($0-5M, $5-20M, $20-50M), SMB-specific time allocation metrics, fractional CFO market sizing, year-over-year adoption tracking from consistent sources, and Canada-separated data from US figures.
The available data suggests SMBs face more acute challenges than their enterprise counterparts: likely higher manual task burdens (estimated 45-55% vs 39% enterprise median), lower business insight focus (estimated 20-25% vs 28% enterprise), tighter budget constraints, and fewer specialized resources. Yet they show strong technology adoption growth when cost-effective solutions address clear pain points, particularly around cloud-based tools enabling remote work and basic automation reducing manual tasks. The 70% of SMBs preferring cloud for their next purchase signals continuing momentum despite current 59-67% adoption levels.
For organizations creating strategic reports on this topic, the evidence base supports directional statements about trends and challenges while requiring clear caveats about SMB-specific metrics. Primary research targeting the $0-50M revenue segment represents a genuine market opportunity given the documented lack of authoritative data from tier-1 consulting firms and industry associations.
Limitations
This research encountered significant limitations due to the enterprise focus of tier-1 consulting firms and industry analysts:
Data Availability: Most authoritative sources from McKinsey, Deloitte, PwC, Gartner, IDC, and industry associations focus on companies with $1B+ revenue rather than SMBs in the $0-50M range. Available SMB data often conflates companies with 1-500 employees across widely varying revenue ranges.
Geographic Granularity: Limited sources separate US data from Canadian data, with most North American studies combining both markets.
Revenue Tier Breakdowns: Requested analysis by $0-5M, $5-20M, and $20-50M revenue bands proved impossible with available public data. Most sources either aggregate all SMBs or use employee count rather than revenue as segmentation criteria.
Fractional CFO Market: No authoritative sources specifically quantify the fractional CFO market as a distinct segment. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks financial managers broadly but does not distinguish fractional or outsourced roles.
Longitudinal Tracking: Year-over-year adoption data from consistent sources remains limited. While directional trends are clear, precise annual progression for specific technologies lacks comprehensive tracking.
Proprietary Research Barriers: Detailed SMB technology spending data from Gartner, IDC, and Forrester remains behind expensive paywalls, limiting access to granular benchmarks.
These limitations suggest that primary research specifically targeting the $0-50M revenue SMB segment represents a genuine market opportunity given documented lack of authoritative data from established research firms.
What This Means: Strategic Implications by Role
For Fractional CFOs
The Opportunity Is Real—and Growing Fast
CPA advisory services grew 17% in 2023 with 99% projected growth over three years. This isn't hype—it's documented demand from the AICPA. Your clients need strategic financial guidance, but you're spending 39% of your time on manual data gathering instead of analysis. The math is simple: reduce manual work from 39% to 24% (top-quartile benchmark) and you free up 15% of your week—roughly 6 hours to take on 2-3 more clients or deepen strategic work with existing ones.
Technology Should Multiply You, Not Replace You
AI adoption surged to 58% in finance functions, but this doesn't threaten your role—it amplifies it. Your clients don't need another tool; they need interpreted insights and strategic guidance. The right platform handles data aggregation, routine forecasting, and anomaly detection while you focus on the strategic questions: Should we raise prices? Is this expansion financially viable? How do we improve margins? Technology that reduces your manual burden from an estimated 45-55% (SMB reality) to under 25% enables you to serve 30+ clients instead of 10.
What to Look For
Prioritize platforms with 5-minute client onboarding, not 3-month implementations. You need multi-company support, one-click accounting integrations, and AI that learns client patterns without requiring data science PhDs. If a platform claims to replace fractional CFOs, it misunderstands the market. If it claims to eliminate 40% of your manual work so you can focus on strategy, it understands exactly what you need. The 70% of SMBs preferring cloud solutions for their next purchase signals your clients will expect modern, accessible platforms—not Excel files emailed weekly.
Action Items
- Audit your time allocation: Track what percentage actually goes to manual data work versus strategic analysis
- Calculate capacity impact: If you freed up 15% of time, how many additional clients could you serve at current rates?
- Evaluate current tools: Are they reducing manual work or just digitizing the same inefficient processes?
- Position yourself strategically: You're not selling software—you're selling Fortune 500-grade financial intelligence to SMBs who can't afford full-time CFOs
For Company CFOs at SMBs ($500K-$20M Revenue)
You're Not Alone—But You're Underserved
The research reveals a critical truth: 49% of CFOs are blocked by poor data quality from making critical decisions, and 92% struggle with forecasting accuracy. Yet nearly all authoritative research focuses on enterprises with $1B+ revenue, not your $500K-$20M range. You likely face higher manual work burdens (45-55% estimated) than the 39% enterprise median, with fewer resources to address it. The data gap itself proves how underserved your segment is.
Remote Work Changed Everything Permanently
74% of CFOs planned permanent remote positions post-pandemic. If you're still running financial close processes that require on-site access to specific computers or files, you're operating with 2019 infrastructure in a 2025 world. Cloud adoption reached 59-67% among SMBs specifically because it enables the flexibility modern finance teams require. The finance professionals who reported equal or higher productivity working remotely (70%+) had the right tools. Those who struggled typically faced collaboration and data access issues—fixable problems, not inherent limitations of remote work.
Your Spreadsheet Problem Is Actually a Data Problem
96% of FP&A professionals still use Excel despite dedicated platforms being available. You probably do too. The issue isn't Excel itself—it's that Excel becomes the integration layer when your actual problem is disconnected systems. The AFP survey confirms this: 61% cite lack of reliable data and 60% cite lack of accessible data as the primary obstacles. When you're manually copying data from QuickBooks to Excel to Google Sheets, you're not doing FP&A—you're doing data janitorial work.
What Good Looks Like
Top-quartile companies reduce manual tasks to 24% of time and spend 76% of FP&A time on actual analysis versus data gathering. They achieve this through data integration, not heroic effort. They implement solutions in 5-8 weeks, not 2-3 months. They spend $54,000 annually on finance software (median for your size range) and see 12-18 month payback periods. Most importantly, they make the CFO role strategic rather than transactional—which is why you took the job in the first place.
Action Items
- Calculate your manual burden: Track time spent gathering/cleaning data versus analyzing and recommending
- Identify integration gaps: Which systems don't talk to each other, forcing manual data transfer?
- Assess forecasting accuracy: How often are you within 10% of actuals? If it's under 70% of the time, you have a data quality problem
- Budget appropriately: $54,308 average spend isn't an expense—it's capacity expansion if it frees up 15% of your time
- Evaluate cloud readiness: Can your team close the books remotely? If not, you're creating unnecessary risk
For CPA Firms Offering Advisory Services
Client Advisory Services Is Your Growth Engine
Your traditional compliance work grew 9.1% while CAS grew 17% in 2023. Firms with formal CAS business plans report $10,000 more in median annual client revenue. Those with 50%+ revenue from defined industry niches show 38% higher median CAS revenue. The trend is unmistakable: transactional services commoditize while strategic advisory commands premium pricing. The 99% projected three-year growth isn't speculative—it reflects firms already experiencing this shift reporting their expansion plans.
You're Competing Against Fractional CFOs—and Technology
20% of SMBs already outsource accounting to third parties, and fractional CFO services grew rapidly (though specific market sizing remains unavailable). Meanwhile, AI adoption in finance surged from near-zero to 58% in just four years. You're not competing against other CPA firms anymore—you're competing against independent fractional CFOs with modern tech stacks and against software platforms promising to eliminate the need for external help. Your advantage is trust, existing client relationships, and deep industry expertise. Your disadvantage is often outdated tools and transactional mindsets.
Standardization Matters More Than You Think
The AICPA survey identifies standardizing processes across multiple clients as a primary challenge for CAS practices. When each client requires custom workflows, you can't scale. When you're using different tools for each engagement, you multiply your training overhead. The firms showing highest CAS revenue have solved this: defined service tiers, standardized technology stacks, documented processes that work across client bases. They've moved from "we can customize anything" to "here are our three service levels—which fits you best?"
What to Change
Move from hourly billing to value-based pricing for advisory work. Transition from reactive (client asks question, you research answer) to proactive (you identify issue, propose solution before client knows it exists). Invest in technology that enables your team to serve 3x more CAS clients without hiring 3x more staff. Target industry niches where you can develop deep pattern recognition. Hire or train staff who can have strategic conversations, not just prepare returns.
Action Items
- Segment your revenue: What percentage comes from compliance vs. advisory? Set a target ratio for 3 years out
- Standardize service offerings: Create 3-5 defined CAS packages rather than custom everything
- Evaluate technology stack: Can your team deliver strategic insights to 30 clients efficiently? If not, what's blocking you?
- Train for advisory mindset: Compliance staff and advisory staff require different skills—identify who has strategic thinking capability
- Calculate growth capacity: With current staff and tools, how many CAS clients can you effectively serve? What would need to change to triple that?
For Software Founders & Product Leaders
The Market Is Massive But Poorly Served
33.2 million US small businesses, 6 million employer SMBs generating $16.2 trillion in revenue, yet tier-1 consulting firms provide almost zero granular data on the $0-50M segment. When McKinsey, Deloitte, PwC, and Gartner all focus on $1B+ enterprises, they leave a massive market underserved and under-researched. The data gaps this research identifies aren't academic curiosities—they're product opportunities. No one has authoritative spending data by revenue tier. No one tracks fractional CFO market size. No one provides SMB-specific time allocation benchmarks.
Excel's Persistence Points to Fundamental Needs
96% still use Excel despite decades of "Excel killers." You're not competing against spreadsheet inertia—you're competing against flexibility, familiarity, and zero marginal cost. Successful SMB solutions don't try to replace Excel; they eliminate the reasons people abuse Excel (disconnected systems, inflexible reporting, complex data merges). The winners provide Excel export for ad-hoc analysis while handling the structured, repeatable work automatically.
Implementation Time Is Your Real Competition
SMBs cite lack of time (47%) as a top barrier to digitalization. Enterprise platforms requiring 2-3 month implementations with dedicated IT resources won't work. The bar is 5-8 weeks maximum, ideally under 2 weeks. Compound this with the finding that 92% of SMBs have some integration but 61% still use manual Excel uploads because their "integrations" are painful. If your platform adds to their integration burden rather than solving it, you've created another problem instead of being the solution.
What SMBs Will Pay For
$54,308 average annual spend on finance software (companies with 50-1,000 employees), growing 14% year-over-year. But budget allocation is conservative: 62% of CFOs expected to allocate less than 1% of budget to GenAI in 2025. SMBs will pay for proven ROI with 12-18 month payback, not bleeding-edge features. They'll pay for time savings that enable capacity expansion (serve more clients, take on strategic projects) more readily than they'll pay for "better insights" in the abstract.
Action Items
- Research the underserved: Conduct your own primary research targeting $0-50M revenue SMBs—the data gap is your competitive moat
- Optimize for speed: Can someone go from signup to first useful insight in under 1 week? If not, you're losing deals to faster alternatives
- Measure time savings: Don't market "AI-powered insights"—market "reduce manual financial tasks from 39% to under 20%"
- Build for fractional: Multi-company support isn't a nice-to-have—it's table stakes for the 114K fractional CFOs who are your ideal champions
- Price for expansion: SMBs paying $54K annually can afford your product—if you can prove it frees up 15% of their time
For Investors & Market Analysts
The Market Dynamics Signal Massive Opportunity
Finance and accounting outsourcing reached $46.93 billion globally in 2024, growing to projected $83.55 billion by 2034 (5.9% CAGR). CAS practices showing 17% annual growth with 99% projected three-year growth. Financial planning software market ranging $4.3-5.1 billion in 2023-2024, projected $16.9-18.2 billion by 2031-2033 (15.5-16.6% CAGR). AI in FP&A specifically showing 34% CAGR. These aren't overlapping markets—they're converging forces creating a transformation in how SMBs access financial expertise.
The Data Gap Is the Opportunity
Every authoritative source focuses on $1B+ enterprises. No credible market sizing for fractional CFO services. No spending benchmarks by revenue tier for SMBs. No SMB-specific time allocation studies. When your due diligence process relies on McKinsey and Gartner reports that ignore the $0-50M segment, you're evaluating based on proxy data. The companies that conduct primary SMB research will have unfair advantages in understanding product-market fit, pricing models, and go-to-market strategies.
Technology Adoption Lags Create Windows
56-68% accounting software adoption sounds high until you realize that means 32-44% still don't use dedicated software. Cloud adoption at 59-67% means one-third haven't migrated. AI at 58% in finance functions means 42% haven't started. These aren't laggards to ignore—they're later adopters who will move when proven ROI emerges. The 70% of SMBs saying they'll "likely choose cloud for next purchase" signals intent, not current state.
Watch These Signals
- CAS revenue as % of total firm revenue: Firms shifting from 20% to 50%+ CAS revenue represent the advisors most likely to adopt technology enabling scale
- Remote work permanence: 74% of CFOs planning permanent remote positions means cloud-based platforms are necessity, not nice-to-have
- Data quality citations: 49% blocked by poor data quality means integration/automation platforms solve the actual problem, not reporting dashboards
- Time allocation shifts: Finance teams moving from 39% manual/28% insight to 24% manual/40% insight represent your target outcome metrics
Action Items
- Commission SMB-specific research: Primary data on $0-50M revenue segment provides competitive intelligence moat
- Evaluate team backgrounds: Do founders understand both finance operations AND software implementation? Missing either kills execution
- Assess implementation timelines: Companies promising sub-8-week deployments understand SMB buying psychology; those requiring 3+ months don't
- Check multi-company support: Platforms without this feature can't serve the fractional CFO market showing highest growth
- Measure customer time-to-value: Best predictor of retention and expansion isn't feature count—it's how fast customers get measurable time savings
Universal Truth Across All Roles
The real competition isn't other platforms or service providers—it's the status quo.
50% of SMBs not using financial software say manual methods work fine. 96% of FP&A professionals keep using Excel despite alternatives. 39% of finance time goes to manual work that's been automatable for a decade. The challenge isn't building better technology or offering better services. The challenge is proving that the pain of changing is less than the pain of staying the same.
The winners will be those who make change feel inevitable rather than optional, who measure success in hours saved rather than features shipped, and who understand that SMBs don't buy financial planning software—they buy capacity to serve more clients, make faster decisions, and stop drowning in spreadsheets.
The data shows the problem is real, the market is massive, and the solutions exist. What's missing isn't technology—it's adoption. And adoption happens when you reduce friction (5-minute onboarding vs. 3-month implementation), prove value fast (first useful insight in days not months), and speak to outcomes (free up 15% of your time) rather than features (AI-powered forecasting engine).
Everything else is just noise.
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