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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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December 20, 2019 

Real Estate Trends: Smaller Homes, Stable Market

Changing tastes as Millennials make up a growing share of home buyers will impact the market. Homes will get smaller, bold colors and prints will return to home designs and demand will stay high as more and more people reach typical homebuying age.

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December 19, 2019 

NASBA, AICPA Issue Revisions to CPE Provider Standards

Published jointly by NASBA and the AICPA, the Standards provide the framework for the development, presentation, measurement and reporting of CPE programs. The Standards reference the NASBA Fields of Study document, which was reviewed and evaluated ...

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December 19, 2019 

Organized Retail Thefts Hitting More Businesses

Organized retail crime affects almost all merchants and more than two-thirds of those surveyed have seen an increase in the past year, according to the 15th annual ORC study released today by the National Retail Federation.

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December 19, 2019 

Doc.It Adds Features to Client Portal

The new feature release offers the ability for accountants and clients to preview PDF and Office documents in the portal, saving the time normally required to download a document for review. Also included are enhancements to the PBC ...

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December 19, 2019 

7 Year-End Tips for Taxpayers

Accelerating your charitable contributions is known as a “bunching” strategy, where taxpayers combine two or more years’ worth of charitable contributions into one tax year to take advantage of a higher tax-deduction ...

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December 19, 2019 

The Wackiest Sales Tax News of 2019

Some of the wackiest sales tax tales in 2019 centered on remote sales tax. States won the right to tax remote sales only recently, with the United States Supreme Court decision on South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. (June 21, 2018) — and implementation ...

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December 19, 2019 

Missouri Considers New Economic Nexus Legislation

Last year at this time, Missouri lawmakers introduced a couple of bills relating to remote sales tax. Both sought to implement economic nexus, requiring out-of-state vendors with a certain amount of sales in the state to collect and remit sales tax.

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December 18, 2019 

New Law Extends Key Tax Breaks into 2020

A bill extending certain tax credits and deductions for medical deductions, FMLA, tuition, mortgage insurance premiums, and other issues passed Congress and is expected to be signed into law by President Trump before Christmas.

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December 18, 2019 

2019 Review of CCH Site Builder

CCH Site Builder Wolters Kluwer www.cchwebsites.com 800-739-9998 From the 2019 reviews of website building systems for accounting firms. CCH® Site Builder from Wolters Kluwer is well-suited for small to mid-sized accounting firms that ideally use other Wolters Kluwer applications; however, the program can also be used as a standalone website building tool.  Designed for user...…

Mary Girsch-Bock

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December 18, 2019 

2019 Review of CountingWorks Pro Websites

CountingWorks Pro ClientWhys 800-442-2477 www.CountingWorksPro.com From the 2019 reviews of website building systems for accounting firms. Previously available as ClientWhys, CountingWorks Pro offers a variety of marketing tools designed for tax and accounting firms of all sizes. Along with custom website creation, CountingWorks Pro offers application users a variety of options for their custom created...…

Mary Girsch-Bock