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Intuit QuickBooks Desktop Pricing and Open AI Relationship – The Accounting Technology Lab Podcast – Dec. 2025

Accounting December 12, 2025 

Intuit QuickBooks Desktop Pricing and Open AI Relationship – The Accounting Technology Lab Podcast – Dec. 2025

In this episode of The Accounting Technology Lab, hosts Randy Johnston and Brian Tankersley analyze Intuit’s recent announcements following Intuit Connect, focusing on major QuickBooks Desktop (QBD) price increases, and Intuit’s reported $100 million annual relationship with OpenAI. The Accounting Tech Lab is an ongoing series that explores the intersection of public accounting and technology.

Brian Tankersley, Randy Johnston

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February 12, 2020 

Now’s the Time to Secure Client Data

Preparing client data has always been the job of a CPA – but protecting it has only recently become law. Learn what the IRS has stated firms must do to stay in compliance, and how you can get enterprise-level data security for them in 24 hrs.

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February 12, 2020 

IRS Issues New Regulations on Income Tax Withholding

The proposed regulations are designed to accommodate the redesigned Form W-4, Employee’s Withholding Certificate, to be used starting in 2020, and the related tables and computational procedures in Publication 15-T, Federal Income Tax Withholding Methods.

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Accounting February 11, 2020 

Coronavirus Causes Drop in Retail Imports

With coronavirus causing longer Lunar New Year shutdowns of factories in China, imports at major U.S. retail container ports are expected to see a sharper-than-usual drop this month, according to the Global Port Tracker report released today by the ...

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February 11, 2020 

IPSASB Offers Guidance on Social Policy Expenditures

This new guidance complements IPSAS 42 by providing requirements for accounting for collective services (such as defense at national-levels and street lighting at sub-national levels) and individual services (such as healthcare and education).

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February 11, 2020 

Demand for Fast Deployment and Ease-of-Use Drives AP Automation to the Cloud

Everyone wants and expects instant access to information. People demand the ability to conduct business at any time and from any location. Just as importantly, they want this capability now: Solution implementations must be quick and easy. These expectations ring true across the business spectrum, from end customers all the way to back-office teams such...…

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February 11, 2020 

Canopy Adds New Features to Tax Practice Management Platform

Canopy, a cloud-based practice management platform for tax and accounting professionals, has released new updates that enhance the functionality of its product suite and further ease an accountant’s workload as they head into the 2019 tax year.

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February 10, 2020 

Do You Have a Clear Technology Vision

Most impressive at CES this year were hardware solutions to real world problems. We’ll discuss each of them, but I was particularly impressed by new generation laptops, monitors (including a second portable monitor), scanners, keyboards and mice.

Randy Johnston