#accounts-receivable
Manage invoices, track payments, and optimize cash collection
Traditional EDI costs small suppliers $10,000–$100,000+ upfront plus $1–$5 per transaction, while the nonprofit DBNAlliance exchange network launched in 2024 cuts per-invoice fees to $0.05–$0.25 — some access points are free. Here's how small B2B sellers can meet Walmart-style electronic invoicing mandates without overpaying, and why structured e-invoices get paid 1.4–2 days faster.
Senior living placement agencies earn 70–80% of a resident's first month's rent — but only at move-in, and often subject to 30-day clawback clauses. This guide explains when to recognize referral fee revenue under ASC 606, how to book refund liabilities from your historical clawback rate, and which pipeline metrics predict cash flow.
Urgent care bookkeeping hinges on details generic templates miss: the POS-20 place-of-service code that sets the reimbursement rate (and triggers denials at payers who contract clinics as offices), denial-reason tracking for the ~60% of billing work that happens after claim submission, and Section 179's $2,560,000 limit plus permanent 100% bonus depreciation for X-ray and lab equipment in 2026.
FASB's ASU 2025-12 (Issue 20) clarifies that receivables recognized before performance is complete — annual SaaS billed upfront, retainers, construction progress billings — fall under ASC 860's transfer rules when sold or factored, not ASC 470 debt guidance by default. The fix takes effect for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2026, with issue-by-issue early adoption, and sale treatment still requires passing the true-sale test.
An AR aging report sorts unpaid invoices into current, 1–30, 31–60, 61–90, and 90+ day buckets so you can spot cash flow risk early. Healthy businesses keep 70–80% of receivables in the first two buckets; collection odds drop below 70% past 90 days. Here's how to read the buckets, run a weekly collections workflow, and turn the report into a cash forecast.
How environmental remediation contractors should structure job costing when a state UST cleanup fund — not the property owner — is the real payer. Covers the five remediation phases as cost codes, ASC 606 collectibility with fund caps and deductibles, tracking 6-to-8-week reimbursement aging separately from ordinary AR, and the documentation that survives a fund audit.
The quick ratio (acid-test ratio) strips inventory and prepaid expenses from current assets to test whether cash, receivables, and marketable securities alone can cover current liabilities. Includes the formula, a worked example where a 2.5 current ratio hides a 1.0 quick ratio, industry benchmarks, and the aged-receivables blind spot.
B2B BNPL providers pay suppliers 100% of invoice value up front while buyers keep their net-30 to net-90 terms, moving default risk off the supplier's books. With bad debt averaging ~8% of credit sales and the market projected to grow from $204 billion in 2025 to $466 billion by 2030, here's how the model works, what it costs, and how to record financed invoices correctly.
In 2026, 92% of businesses are typically paid after their invoice due date and 59% of small businesses have an invoice overdue by 30+ days, up from 47% a year earlier — this guide breaks down the numbers and a five-step collections playbook to protect cash flow.
California's SB 440, effective January 1, 2026, gives private-project owners 30 days to respond to a change order claim and 60 days to pay the undisputed portion — or owe 2% monthly interest (24% a year). Here's how the law works, how it compares to other states, and how contractors should track the deadlines in their books.
As of January 1, 2026, CMS-0057-F requires Medicare Advantage, Medicaid, CHIP, and ACA marketplace payers to decide prior authorization requests within 72 hours (expedited) or 7 calendar days (standard) and to give specific denial reasons — with FHIR-based prior auth APIs mandated by January 1, 2027. Here's what small medical and dental practices should do now.
Home care agencies collect from private pay, Medicaid MCOs, and VA Aid and Attendance on three different timelines while caregiver payroll runs on a fixed biweekly schedule, so tracking AR by payer separately (not blended) is the key to forecasting cash and catching the 2026 EVV hard-edit denials that make unresolved visit exceptions permanently unbillable.
