People undercount touches by about half
Count one real day before you estimate. The number you type from memory is usually the complaint, not the work.
Same math as the operator post
What is this process costing you?
Pick the quiet one. Double entry. Status copied into a tracker. A draft rewritten after the model said it was done. Four inputs, 48 working weeks, 1.3 loaded rate.
One minute
Annual cost = touches × (minutes ÷ 60) × rate × 1.3 × people × 48. Under $3,000, leave it alone.
The expensive leaks are the quiet ones
Nobody files a ticket for the copy between two systems. Everyone accepted it years ago. That is why it survives.