By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: July 2026 | 14-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer The cost of accountant turnover in public accounting is not just recruiting fees, salary replacement, and lost hiring time. It is the cost of rebuilding capability from
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By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: 2026 | 12-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer Your managers aren’t too busy to train — your firm has made them the entire training system, which no manager has the bandwidth to be. They’re already reviewing
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How to Retain Knowledge When Staff Leave: Why Documentation Isn’t Enough (and What Actually Works)
By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | Skillability for Accounting Firms Last updated: 2026 | 12-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer To retain knowledge when staff leave, you have to accept an uncomfortable truth first: you can’t keep most of it by writing it down. Critical firm knowledge is
By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | Skillability for Accounting Firms Last updated: 2026 | 14-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer A CPA enablement platform is the people layer of an accounting firm’s tech stack — the system that makes your staff actually able to operate everything else. Firms
By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | Skillability for Accounting Firms Let me tell you what most platform comparison articles won’t. They’re written by people who have reviewed platforms. I’ve needed them. There’s a difference — and that difference is about $9,500 per hire, a decade of painful lessons, and
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