If 2025 taught accounting firms anything, it’s this: cash flow discipline, operational efficiency, and payment flexibility are no longer “back-office” concerns. They are strategic levers that directly determine a firm’s ability to grow, retain clients, and protect margins. Across regions, firm leaders faced a year defined by economic pressure, regulatory intensity, and clie…

The economic climate for professional-services firms is shifting — and not in subtle ways. Sales cycles are lengthening. Delivery costs are rising. Client expectations are evolving faster than firms can reprice. Cash is tightening, not because firms lack demand, but because the gap between work delivered and cash collected continues to widen. Accounting and legal firms are …

In our earlier blogs, we showed how accounts receivables (AR) inefficiency erodes firm performance and how unchecked inefficiency creates a growth-killing spiral. Now, let’s look at the other side: how firms pulling ahead today are reframing accounts receivable from a back-office burden into a strategic growth lever. From Admin to Advantage Forward-thinking firms re…