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: 2026 | 12-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer To develop accounting staff without relying on shadowing: (1) define role-specific capability — a bookkeeper, tax preparer, senior, and manager need different pathways, not generic training; (2) stop
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 The 70-20-10 rule says people learn roughly 70% from experience, 20% from coaching and relationships, and 10% from formal training. It’s directionally right — courses alone never built
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 A new accountant’s first 90 days decide whether they become an independent contributor or a dependent one who needs constant manager rescue — and most firms waste the
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 Your best staff keep failing after promotion because firms confuse technical competence with management readiness — two completely different skill sets. Being excellent at preparing returns or reconciling
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 Your managers aren’t too busy to train — your firm has made them the entire training system, which no manager has the bandwidth to be. They’re already reviewing
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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