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 AI now does the entry-level accounting work — document collection, data extraction, reconciliations, draft returns — that once trained new accountants. 70% of U.S. firms already use AI
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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 AI isn’t eliminating the need to train accountants — it’s eliminating the accidental training ground that produced them. For generations, junior CPAs learned by doing repetitive work: data
By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | Skillability for Accounting Firms Last updated: 2026 | 15-minute read The Short Answer (TL;DR) For a century, accountants learned the profession by doing the grunt work — reconciliations, transaction coding, trial balances — and developing judgment through thousands of hours of hands-on repetition.
By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | Skillability for Accounting Firms Last updated: 2026 | 16-minute read The Short Answer (TL;DR) Accounting is not a dying profession. It is a splitting one. Three forces are colliding at once — a collapsing talent pipeline (300,000+ accountants left the profession between 2019
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