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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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October 18, 2019 

2019 Review of ImagineShare from ImagineTime

ImagineShare is a new client portal now offered by ImagineTime, a comprehensive Practice Management suite of applications well suited for both the accounting and the legal profession. In addition to ImagineShare, ImagineTime also includes time and ...

Mary Girsch-Bock

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October 18, 2019 

2019 Review of SmartVault

SmartVault offers branded client portals, along with online document storage and secure file sharing capability. Best suited for small to mid-sized businesses and accounting firms. SmartVault is particularly well suited for firms using QuickBooks ...

Mary Girsch-Bock

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October 18, 2019 

2019 Review of Citrix ShareFile

Citrix ShareFile is a comprehensive file sharing application well suited for any business, including accounting firms, that need to share documents with clients or customers. Along with file sharing capability, Citrix ShareFile also includes document ...

Mary Girsch-Bock

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October 18, 2019 

2019 Review of Thomson Reuters NetClient CS Portals

NetClient CS Portals Thomson Reuters 800-968-8900 http://cs.thomsonreuters.com From the 2019 reviews of client portal systems for accounting firms. NetClient CS Portals is part of CS Professional Suite from Thomson Reuters. Designed to be used with other CS Professional Suite applications, NetClient CS Portals is a good fit for accounting firms of any size. NetClient CS...…

Mary Girsch-Bock

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October 18, 2019 

2019 Review of Cloud Cabinet Client Portals

Cloud Cabinet from AccountantsWorld offers both document management capability as well as client portals. Well suited for small to mid-sized accounting firms, Cloud Cabinet can be used as a stand-alone document management and portal solution ...

Mary Girsch-Bock

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October 17, 2019 

Who’s in Your Ecosystem?

In your life, you probably use a great number of experts for your personal affairs, the people with whom you make appointments. You have a doctor, certainly, and a dentist. Maybe you have some other medical professionals as well depending on your or your family’s health situation. You probably have a family lawyer, a hairdresser/barber,...…

Gail Perry

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October 17, 2019 

Spooky Retail: A State-By-State Guide to Halloween Candy Taxes

In other words, Halloween is a serious time for business, despite the sweet, whimsical, or haunting artifacts on the shelves. Every sale of a pointy black hat or bag of candy matters — as does getting the tax right on those sales.In other words, ...

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October 17, 2019 

2019 Review of Professional Payroll Systems

For years, every other Friday, when paychecks were disbursed, co-workers would line up outside my office, thankfully not for me, but for our staff payroll person, whose office was down the hall from mine. It never failed, not a payday went by without ...

Mary Girsch-Bock

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October 17, 2019 

2019 Review of CheckMark Payroll

CheckMark Payroll is part of CheckMark’s suite of accounting and payroll applications that are offered to both U.S. and Canadian businesses. Working on both Windows and Mac operating systems, CheckMark Payroll is an on-premise payroll application ...

Mary Girsch-Bock