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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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March 20, 2019 

Professionals on the Move: March 21, 2019

Baker Newman Noyes, one of the nation’s top 100 accounting and advisory firms, recently announced the appointment of Dayton Benway as Managing Principal. In addition to leading the firm, Dayton will also continue on in his role as director of ...

GASB

March 19, 2019 

GASB Issues Proposed Implementation Guide on Leases

The Exposure Draft proposes answers to questions about GASB Statement No. 87, Leases. GASB Implementation Guides are intended to clarify, explain, or elaborate on the requirements of Board Statements.

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March 19, 2019 

FASB Improves Accounting for Episodic Television Series

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) today issued an Accounting Standards Update (ASU) that helps organizations align their accounting for production costs for films and episodic content produced for television and streaming services.

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March 19, 2019 

How to Energize Your Tired Employees

Just about every manager has seen it around the office at various times: a symphony of yawns, stretches and unfocused gazes on employees’ faces. Some of your staff likely aren’t getting enough sleep.

Paul McDonald

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March 19, 2019 

Embracing Change and Adapting to Our Future in Tech

Nobody ever tells you change is easy. In fact, facing change takes a whole lot of courage, and it can still be a messy, challenging experience. But in the long run, the consequences of denying change are much more detrimental to our well being.

Amy Vetter

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March 19, 2019 

Employers: SSN No-Match Letters are Back

Many employers still recall opening a letter from the Social Security Administration (SSA) informing them that the name or Social Security number (SSN) reported on a recent wage report does not match a name or SSN in the SSA’s records. At times the ...

Richard D. Alaniz, JD

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March 19, 2019 

Do Your Best Time Management

While thinking about the time management theme of this issue, I believe my favorite quote about time was used by my Mum that, “We all have the same amount of time in the day, and we have the choice of how we use it.” While I know that’s not quite true ...

Randy Johnston

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March 18, 2019 

States Attract New Wave of Tourism With Legalized Cannabis

Currently, the U.S. has only 10 states and the District of Columbia that have legalized cannabis entirely and states such as California, Colorado, and Nevada are the biggest market drivers. Many visitors have traveled to those states ...

 Modern Retailers are Meeting Multichannel Consumer Demands

March 18, 2019 

Modern Retailers are Meeting Multichannel Consumer Demands

As more consumers embrace multichannel shopping, retailers are diversifying their investments online and offline to meet customers’ needs, according to the annual State of Retailing Online study released today by the National Retail Federation and ...

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March 18, 2019 

40% of Employers Plan to Hire More Full-Time Workers in 2019

More than 40 percent of employers plan to hire full-time, permanent employees in 2019, and 47 percent plan to recruit part-time workers. Hiring for full-time employees and part-time or contract workers is on par with the 2018 report, which was 44 ...