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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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November 18, 2019 

2019 Review of Vertex Cloud Indirect Tax

Vertex Cloud Indirect Tax Vertex www.vertexCloud.com From the 2019 reviews of sales tax compliance systems. Vertex Cloud Indirect Tax is a Software as a Service (SaaS) application that offers sales and use tax compliance. Vertex Cloud is well suited for businesses of any size that desire sales and use tax automation and compliance. Vertex Cloud...…

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November 18, 2019 

2019 Review of eFileSalesTax

efileSalesTax.com www.efilesalestax.com 877-584-2309 From the 2019 reviews of sales tax compliance systems. efileSalesTax.com is a web-based application that offers sales tax compliance and filing for four states: California, Colorado, Florida, and Illinois. efileSalesTax.com is best suited for small to mid-sized businesses as well as accounting professionals that need to file sales tax exclusively for these...…

Mary Girsch-Bock

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November 18, 2019 

2019 Review of Avalara AvaTax

Avalara AvaTax www.avalara.com From the 2019 reviews of sales tax compliance systems. Avalara AvaTax is a cloud-based sales tax calculator that is designed to integrate with numerous business and retail applications to provide automatic tax rate lookup and calculations. AvaTax is a good fit for businesses and retailers of any size as well as accounting...…

Mary Girsch-Bock

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November 18, 2019 

2019 Review of CCH SureTax

CCH SureTax Wolters Kluwer https://taxna.wolterskluwer.com From the 2019 reviews of sales tax compliance systems. CCH SureTax from Wolters Kluwer is a scalable, cloud-based application that can be used as a stand-alone system, and is a good fit for businesses of any size. Along with its standard sales and use tax calculations, CCH SureTax also offers...…

Mary Girsch-Bock

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November 18, 2019 

2019 Review of CCH Sales Tax Office

CCH Sales Tax Office Wolters Kluwer www.cchgroup.com From the 2019 reviews of sales tax compliance systems. CCH Sales Tax Office from Wolters Kluwer is a stand-alone system well-suited for larger corporations that need to manage sales and use tax for business entities in a variety of locations. CCH Sales Tax Office is deployed as an...…

Mary Girsch-Bock

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November 18, 2019 

2019 Review of TaxJar

TaxJar www.taxjar.com From the 2019 reviews of sales tax compliance systems. TaxJar is designed for businesses that sell products online; it integrates with a variety of popular ecommerce platforms. TaxJar also offers a Tax Advisor plan that is aimed at accounting professionals that offer sales and use tax management to their clients. Top-notch integration with...…

Mary Girsch-Bock

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November 18, 2019 

2019 Overview of Bloomberg Tax – State Tax

Sales & Use Tax Rates Finder Bloomberg Tax State Tax https://pro.bloombergtax.com/state-tax-resources/ From the 2019 reviews of sales tax compliance systems. Bloomberg Tax’s Sales & Use Tax Rates Finder provides access to real-time tax rates online. The Sales & Use Tax Rates Finder is a feature of Bloomberg Tax’s State Tax offering, combining accurate, up-to-the-date state...…

Mary Girsch-Bock

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November 18, 2019 

2019 Review of Avalara TrustFile

Avalara TrustFile Avalara www.trustfile.avalara.com From the 2019 reviews of sales tax compliance systems. Designed for ecommerce sellers, Avalara TrustFile helps automate the sales tax preparation process, and can be used in all 45 states that currently impose sales tax. TrustFile syncs with popular online selling platforms to reduce the amount of data entry needed in...…

Mary Girsch-Bock

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November 18, 2019 

2019 Review of CA and NY Sales Tax Preparer

CA Sales Tax Preparer NY Sales Tax Preparer CFS Tax Software Inc. www.taxtools.com From the 2019 reviews of sales tax compliance systems. CFS Tax Software Inc. offers sales tax software for accounting professionals that need to calculate, print, and file California and/or New York state sales and use tax returns for their clients. In fact,...…

Mary Girsch-Bock

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November 18, 2019 

2019 Review of Hosting Providers for Accounting Firms

As the industry moves more towards cloud-based solutions, there remains a core group of users who maintain loyalty to on-premise applications. While this loyalty is admirable, in this day of remote workers and the desire for anytime/anywhere access, adhering to an onsite application can be limiting. Which is why application hosting can be so important....…

Mary Girsch-Bock

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November 18, 2019 

2019 Review of Abacus Private Cloud

Abacus Private Cloud Abacus Next www.abacusnext.com From the 2019 reviews of hosting services for accounting firms. Abacus Private Cloud from AbacusNext (APC) is a good fit for accounting firms with 10 or more employees that are in the market for a private hosting solution that offers top level security. Once available only to legal firms,...…

Mary Girsch-Bock

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November 18, 2019 

2019 Review of Cetrom CPA Cloud

Cetrom CPA Cloud Cetrom Information Technology Inc. www.cetrom.net From the 2019 reviews of hosting services for accounting firms. Cetrom is a cloud hosting provider specializing in providing reliable and customizable IT hosting services to CPA firms. Cetrom was been named K2 Enterprises’ Top Hosting Provider for the 5th consecutive year (2015-2019). Cetrom has deployed multiple...…

Mary Girsch-Bock