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

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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 21, 2020 

Accountants Have Confidence in Global Economy

The latest Global Economic Conditions Survey (GECS) released today from ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and IMA (Institute of Management Accountants) found that global economic confidence bounced back in Q4 2019 to around its level in mid-2019, with a particularly strong improvement in North America. While the global poll of 2,560 accountants reported...…

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January 21, 2020 

Top 100 Tax Pros and Cloud Accounting Experts Named

Online reviews continue to be one of the most important criteria used to select products and services, including services from local professionals like tax pros and accountants. A 2019 survey by BrightLocal showed that 82% of consumers read online ...

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January 21, 2020 

Grant Thornton Launches Indirect Tax Platform

The platform bridges the various indirect tax management functions into one simplified workflow, easing the compliance burden in addition to providing insight for strategic management.

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January 21, 2020 

Illinois CPA Society President and CEO Signs Diversity Pledge

Among the Illinois CPA Society’s diversity initiatives is the Mary T. Washington Wylie Internship Preparation Program. This award-winning, annual program prepares students from diverse backgrounds with key skills needed to obtain and succeed in ...

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January 21, 2020 

Virginia CPA Firm Keiter Donates $11,000 to Charities

Keiter, the largest, independent Certified Public Accounting firm in Central Virginia, announces that it has donated $11,000 to Richmond-area not-for profit organizations as part of its “A Bright Future Serving the Community” campaign. The donations mark the conclusion of a year-long celebration honoring the firm’s 40th anniversary of serving clients in the Greater Richmond region,...…

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January 21, 2020 

Paychex Among Most Admired Companies

Paychex, a provider of HR, payroll, benefits, and insurance solutions, today was named to Fortune magazine’s 2020 list of the World’s Most Admired Companies.

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January 21, 2020 

BDO Launches New Digital Advisory Business

For the middle market, digital disruption is both an existential threat and an unprecedented opportunity. It’s a new world order of increasing connectivity, complexity and risk, one that no business can ignore...

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January 21, 2020 

Mazars Reports 10.4% Annual Growth

Alongside Mazars’ standout financial performance, 2019 also saw the signing of the Mazars North America Alliance in July. The Mazars North America Alliance is a milestone agreement between Mazars and five leading firms in the United States and Canada ...

 H&R Block Named One of Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality

January 21, 2020 

H&R Block Named One of Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality

H&R Block earned 100% in the Human Rights Campaign’s 2020 Corporate Equality Index. For its perfect score, the company also was recognized as one of HRC’s “Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality.” The Human Rights Campaign evaluated the company on ...

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January 21, 2020 

The Tax Blotter – January 23, 2020

As part of a massive spending package, Congress passed the “Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act” at the end of 2019. In addition to a host of tax extenders, this new law provides tax relief for federal disaster area victims in 2018 through ...