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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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January 24, 2020 

The Tax Blotter – January 24, 2020

Depending on a client’s situation, contributions made to an IRA in 2020 may be wholly or partially tax deductible on a 2019 tax return. This is an opportunity for clients to reduce their tax liability after the close of the tax year.

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January 23, 2020 

Private Tax Debt Collectors Show Progress

According to the latest data, the IRS is finally putting a dent in the estimated $441 billion “tax gap” through its private debt collection program. But there’s still a long way—a very long way— to go.

 How Client Accounting Services (CAS) Can Grow Your Firm

January 23, 2020 

How Client Accounting Services (CAS) Can Grow Your Firm

Whether you’re establishing a new CAS practice, looking for ways to take your existing CAS practice to the next level, or actively evaluating CAS-specific process and workflow technology, this whitepaper is a must-read.

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January 23, 2020 

A Rollercoaster Decade for American Finances

Thanks to a late 2019 stock market surge, Americans’ financial satisfaction has roared into the 2020’s. The average American should be feeling their strongest sense of financial well-being ever, according to the AICPA’s Q4 2019 Personal Financial ...

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January 23, 2020 

Can Pay Transparency Erase the Gender Pay Gap?

A related PayScale survey found that employees have their own bias, as most tend to believe their workplace does a better job than other companies at providing equal opportunities for men and women.

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January 22, 2020 

How Common are Remote Work Arrangements?

In a new survey from global staffing firm Robert Half, less than half of professionals (47%) said their company provides the option to work off-site. Of those, 70% take advantage of the perk and work from home...

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January 22, 2020 

Beware “Ghost” Tax Return Preparers, Warns IRS

According to the IRS, a ghost preparer does not sign a tax return they prepare. Unscrupulous ghost preparers will print the return and tell the taxpayer to sign and mail it to the IRS. For e-filed returns, the ghost will prepare but refuse to digitally...

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January 22, 2020 

Former AICPA Chair Tommye Barie to Join CPA.com Board

Barie has a proven track record of leadership with various organizations. She’s spent her career as a CPA focusing on audit and consulting services for governmental entities and not-for-profit organizations, primarily as a partner with ...