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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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April 17, 2019 

3 Reasons to Add Payroll to Your Practice

Payroll is often one of the largest expenses for small businesses. In fact, according to the Intuit State of Small Business Cash Flow - Payroll study, nearly half of small business owners who aren’t self-employed estimate 30 percent of their company’s ...

Scott Cytron

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April 17, 2019 

The 3-Month Marketing Guide to Gain Transportation Industry Clients

If you’re targeting transportation companies in your firm’s growth strategy, this Ultimate Guide was developed for you. Before marketing, research the target market – define who you want to work with; identify specific transportation industries; develop a buyer persona of your perfect client; and pin point the geographic market. Once those items have been developed,...…

Becky Livingston

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April 16, 2019 

Creating Structure Around Innovation

The innovation process within firms is often chaotic and uncoordinated if it exists at all. While it’s true that innovation is messy, leaders cannot expect to merely tell people the goal is to be innovative and expect amazing things.

Jim Boomer

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April 16, 2019 

Optimization vs. Transformation

Bringing in technology to optimize what your firm already does will not somehow transform your business model. So let’s take a look at the differences between optimization and transformation.

Arianna Campbell

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April 16, 2019 

Loving to Learn

If the way millennials view learning wasn’t enough to get you to rethink your focus on learning, a study in 2017 by Deloitte revealed that learning and development is the #2 topic on the minds of CEO and HR leaders, so clearly these millennials are ...

Garrett Wagner

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April 16, 2019 

4 Tips to Overcome Hiring Challenges

Recent research shows many organizations are already flexible with their hiring demands. In a Robert Half survey, 84 percent of human resources managers said they are at least somewhat open to hiring and training an employee who doesn't meet the ...

Paul McDonald

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Small Business April 16, 2019 

6 Basic Bookkeeping Tips for Truckers

Bookkeeping is one of the most important activities that successful owner-operators should be using to their advantage. The receipts and records you keep are often in areas of your business — income tax reporting and minimization, warranty issues ...

Amanda Hammond