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: July 2026 | 14-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer Offshore accounting staff can add capacity, but only if your onboarding system builds review-ready work before client work reaches your managers. Offshore staff are not a shortcut
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 To reduce review notes in accounting, do not lower review standards. Build staff who submit more review-ready work. Too many review notes are not just a quality-control
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 An accountant development plan shows how a person moves from basic execution to independence, judgment, client communication, advisory readiness, and leadership. Most CPA firms do not really
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 Client retention in a CPA practice transition depends on whether client trust transfers, not just whether the client list is assigned. Most firms treat a CPA practice
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 Business development for accounting firms starts with staff capability because a firm cannot market its way past a capability ceiling. Most firms treat business development as lead
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 A knowledge transfer system in a CPA firm protects what only your best people know before that knowledge walks out, burns out, or gets buried. A folder
By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: 2026 | 13-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer The best way to motivate accounting staff is to stop making them guess how to become valuable. Most CPA firms try to motivate staff from the outside: raises,
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