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Accounting manager deciding which CPA firm responsibilities to hand off, review, or retain based on capability, authority, and risk.
20 Jul

Accounting Firm Delegation Framework: What Managers Should Hand Off, Review, and Retain

Accounting Workforce Development / Leadership & Succession

By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: July 20, 2026  |  24-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer Accounting managers should hand off work when another employee can own a clearly defined outcome within approved authority; review work when risk or development requires independent

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CPA firm scoring inherent key-person risk based on impact, knowledge, authority, relationships, deadlines, and recovery difficulty.
20 Jul

Key-Person Risk Assessment for CPA Firms: Find Single Points of Failure Before Busy Season

Accounting Workforce Development / Leadership & Succession

By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: July 20, 2026  |  24-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer A CPA firm has key-person risk when a critical client relationship, technical conclusion, review responsibility, workflow, system, deadline, or business decision depends on one person and

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Comparison between an outdated accounting procedure manual and a living SOP used during real CPA firm work.
16 Jul

Accounting Firm SOP Template: How to Document Workflows Without Creating a Dead Manual

Accounting Workforce Development / Knowledge Transfer

By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: July 16, 2026  |  25-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer An accounting firm SOP should help a qualified employee perform a defined workflow correctly, securely, and consistently without forcing the person to reconstruct the process from

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