Billing and collections guides for
accounting and professional service firms

The Anchor blog explains how firms price work, write engagement letters, send invoices and collect payments. Each guide is written for accounting, bookkeeping, tax and professional services teams that want predictable cash flow without chasing clients.

Secure payment link guide for professional-services firms

Learn how a secure payment link protects client details, improves checkout clarity, and shows when Anchor's autonomous billing workflow fits firms today.

Anchor Team
September 17, 2026
11
min

Bad Debt Expense: How to Calculate, Reduce and Prevent It

Learn how to calculate bad debt expense using the allowance method, reduce write-offs with automated billing, and prevent uncollectible accounts.

Anchor Team
September 9, 2026
9
min

How to price accounting services: fixed-fee, value and hourly

The answer for most firms is a hybrid. Fixed-fee for recurring compliance work, value pricing for advisory, and hourly for complex one-off work where scope can't be determined in advance

Team Anchor
September 8, 2026
11
min

Cash conversion cycle: what it is and how AR drives it

Service firms have a median 42-day DSO. Learn how the cash conversion cycle works, why DSO is the only lever you control, and how to cut it to 7 days.

Anchor team
September 3, 2026
7
min

Client intake software for accounting firms

Compare client intake software for accounting firms and learn how clean intake data can flow into proposals, agreements, billing, payments, and reconciliation.

Anchor Team
September 2, 2026
18
min

AR KPI: 10 metrics accounting firms should track

Learn which ar kpi metrics matter most for accounting firms, how to calculate and interpret them, and how autonomous billing supports predictable cash flow.

Anchor Team
September 1, 2026
18
min