How to Price Client Accounting Services

Price and value balanced on scale above a tablet computerPushing the profit per person.

By Hitendra Patil
The Definitive Success Guide to Client Accounting Services

Pricing your services correctly to ensure reasonable profitability is a major decision you will make in your client accounting services practice.

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Our survey results revealed how CAS firms price their CAS offering:

  • The topmost method of pricing CAS offering was fixed/flat fee, used by 41 percent of the respondents.
  • The next most common method of pricing CAS was a mixed method of pricing (a mix of hourly, fixed and value pricing), charged by 36 percent of respondents.
  • Hourly billing method was used by 33 percent of respondents.
  • About 28 percent of respondents used value pricing as the method for CAS pricing.