By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: August 26, 2026 | 38-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer Inventory accounting training should teach staff to prove ownership, quantity, unit cost, cutoff, recoverability, and reconciliation—not simply accept the perpetual inventory report and book a year-end
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By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: August 26, 2026 | 41-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer Lease accounting training should teach staff to prove why an arrangement is a lease, why the lease term and discount rate are supportable, and why the
By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: August 26, 2026 | 41-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer Revenue recognition training should teach staff to prove why revenue belongs in this amount and this period—not merely memorize ASC 606’s five steps. A review-ready staff
25 Aug
R&D Tax Credit Training for Accountants: Teach Staff to Build Evidence Before Calculating the Credit
By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting FirmsLast updated: August 25, 2026 | 40-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer R&D tax credit training should teach staff to prove qualified research by business component before they total wages, supplies, contract research, or calculate Form 6765. A review-ready
25 Aug
IRS Tax Notice Response Training for Accounting Staff: From Notice Intake to Documented Resolution
By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: August 25, 2026 | 36-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer IRS tax notice response training should teach accounting staff to protect the taxpayer’s procedural rights while rebuilding the IRS issue from source evidence—not simply draft a
By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: August 25, 2026 | 38-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer Gift tax return training should teach accountants to document the transfer—not merely compare a gift with the annual exclusion. A review-ready Form 709 preparer identifies the
By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: August 24, 2026 | 35-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer Estate tax return training should teach accountants to prove what was included in the gross estate, why each asset was valued the way it was, what
By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: August 24, 2026 | 35-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer Fiduciary income tax training should teach staff to determine who is taxed on each dollar of income—not simply populate Form 1041 and copy numbers to Schedule
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
21 Aug
AI Governance for Accounting Firms: Rules for Using, Reviewing, and Approving AI-Generated Work
By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: August 21, 2026 | 26-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer AI governance for accounting firms should answer five questions before AI-generated work enters a client file: Is this use allowed? Is this data allowed? What evidence
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