By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: August 21, 2026 | 20-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer For most CPA firms, there is no single correct manager-to-staff ratio. A manager’s reporting span, review span, and development span are three different capacity problems. Gallup’s
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20 Aug
Budgeting and Forecasting Training for Accountants: Turn Historical Numbers Into Forward Decisions
By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: August 20, 2026 | 29-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer Budgeting and forecasting training should teach accountants to convert reliable historical financials into explicit assumptions, operating drivers, integrated future financials, rolling updates, scenarios, and decision-ready recommendations.
By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: August 20, 2026 | 29-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer Outsourced controller training should teach accountants to own the reliability and operating rhythm of the client’s finance function—not merely prepare cleaner books and not prematurely jump
By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: August 20, 2026 | 25-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer Fixed asset accounting training should teach staff to control the entire asset lifecycle—from invoice and capitalization decision to depreciation, physical existence, disposal, reconciliation, and the tax-preparer
19 Aug
Year-End Accounting Training for Bookkeepers: W-2s, 1099s, Reconciliations, and Closing the Year
By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: August 19, 2026 | 30-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer Year-end accounting training for bookkeepers should teach staff to turn twelve months of transactions into reconciled books, supportable W-2 and 1099 populations, a clean tax-preparer package,
19 Aug
Payroll Tax Training for Accounting Staff: Build Quarterly Filing and Reconciliation Competence
By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: August 19, 2026 | 33-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer Payroll tax training for accounting staff should teach a control system that reconciles every payroll run into quarterly returns, tax deposits, state filings, general-ledger liabilities, and
18 Aug
Tax Workpaper Training for Staff Accountants: Build a Traceable Return Before It Reaches Review
By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting FirmsLast updated: August 18, 2026 | 31-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer Tax workpaper training for staff accountants should teach staff to build an evidence trail another tax professional can follow without reconstructing the return. A review-ready tax workpaper
18 Aug
Multistate Tax Training for Staff Accountants: Build Nexus, Apportionment, and Filing Judgment
By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting FirmsLast updated: August 18, 2026 | 26-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer Multistate tax training for staff accountants should teach a decision process—not a list of state rules. A review-ready staff accountant should be able to identify the tax
17 Aug
Individual Tax Return Training for New Preparers: Build 1040 Capability Without Manager Rescue
By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: August 17, 2026 | 53-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer Individual tax return training should teach new preparers to build the taxpayer story before they build Form 1040. A review-ready 1040 preparer starts with identity, residency,
By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: August 17, 2026 | 55-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer Partnership tax training should teach staff accountants to see Form 1065 as a legal-economic allocation system—not as a larger version of an S corporation return. A
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