By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: August 24, 2026 | 28-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer C corporation tax training should teach staff to build Form 1120 from a reconciled corporate tax file—not to populate software from the trial balance and wait
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By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: August 21, 2026 | 27-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer WISP training should turn every security requirement in the firm’s written information security plan into observable employee behavior. Tax professionals are high-value targets because they hold
By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: August 19, 2026 | 27-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer Sales tax training for bookkeepers should teach the complete transaction-to-return control system—not just how to enter a tax code or submit a state form. A review-ready
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
By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: August 18, 2026 | 54-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer Entity selection training should teach accountants to separate legal structure from federal tax classification and then compare the owner’s full economic system—not simply whichever structure appears
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
By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: August 17, 2026 | 52-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer S corporation tax training should teach staff accountants to prepare the return as a connected shareholder-and-entity system—not as a sequence of software input screens. A review-ready
By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: July 17, 2026 | 22-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer Client communication training for accountants should teach staff to move through seven capabilities: prepare the facts, listen for the real business issue, ask diagnostic questions, interpret
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