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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 2, 2019 

Small Business Hiring Drops in March, Wages Steady

After remaining relatively flat in January and February, the Small Business Jobs Index declined 0.15 percent to 98.78. However, despite a 0.88 percent slowdown year-over-year, the first calendar quarter of 2019 represents the strongest quarter in the ...

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April 1, 2019 

Congress Considers IRS Overhaul

New proposed legislation that puts taxpayers first is understandably drawing approvals from both sides of the aisle in Congress. On March 28, the top tax writers from the House Ways & Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee (SFC) introduced...

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April 1, 2019 

BenefitMall Introduces Agency Workspace

Agency Workspace is instrumental in streamlining the management of a broker’s BenefitMall book of business. Whether it’s managing their clients, starting or reviewing quotes, setting up enrollments, viewing their commissions or more, brokers instantly ...

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April 1, 2019 

The Effect of Rev. Rul. 2019-9, 2019-14 IRB

The immediate effect of Rev. Rul. 2019-9, would allow for a tax-free distribution of stock and securities to its shareholders, provided the controlling corporation and the active corporation are engaged in an active conduct of trade or business ...

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 Accounting Association CPAmerica Welcomes Two New Member Firms

April 1, 2019 

Accounting Association CPAmerica Welcomes Two New Member Firms

Effective April 1, 2019, Sobul, Primes & Schenkel, headquartered in Los Angeles, Calif., and Stoy, Malone & Company, P.C., headquartered in Baltimore, Md., will join CPAmerica, Inc., an accounting association of independent, certified public accounting firms that provides shared best practices, networking opportunities and access to expert resources for member firms. These new members are...…

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April 1, 2019 

Giving Workers a ‘Voice’ Improves Retention

Giving low-wage workers a “voice” on the job — the ability to communicate concerns to management — is believed to improve employee satisfaction and retention. Now a new paper supports this theory using a field-based, randomized, controlled ...

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April 1, 2019 

Harvard Business School Launches Gender Initiative

Inspiration for the Gender Initiative emerged during the 2013 commemoration of the School’s 50th anniversary of admitting women to its two-year MBA program. As part of that celebration, HBS hosted its first Gender & Work Symposium, an annual ...