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
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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
19 Aug
Year-End Accounting Training for Bookkeepers: W-2s, 1099s, Reconciliations, and Closing the Year
By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: August 19, 2026 | 30-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer Year-end accounting training for bookkeepers should teach staff to turn twelve months of transactions into reconciled books, supportable W-2 and 1099 populations, a clean tax-preparer package,
19 Aug
Payroll Tax Training for Accounting Staff: Build Quarterly Filing and Reconciliation Competence
By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: August 19, 2026 | 33-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer Payroll tax training for accounting staff should teach a control system that reconciles every payroll run into quarterly returns, tax deposits, state filings, general-ledger liabilities, and
By Vincent Howard, CPA | Managing Partner, Howard, Howard and Hodges | SkillAbility for Accounting Firms Last updated: August 19, 2026 | 27-minute read TL;DR — The Short Answer Sales tax training for bookkeepers should teach the complete transaction-to-return control system—not just how to enter a tax code or submit a state form. A review-ready
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