What’s the difference between Advisory and Consulting?

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My understanding is consulting generally refers to management and strategy consulting. Advisory is more services that a company could do internally but decides is more efficient to outsource - tech implementation, etc

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Depends on the firm, Deloitte has both, but the other Big 4 practices really are not developed enough to have both.

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