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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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February 18, 2019 

2018 Holiday Retail Sales Grew 2.9 Percent

The numbers, which exclude automobile dealers, gasoline stations and restaurants, fell short of NRF’s forecast last fall that holiday sales from November 1 through December 31 would grow between 4.3 percent and 4.8 percent to between $717.45 billion ...

 An Alternate Universe for Accounting Professionals

February 18, 2019 

An Alternate Universe for Accounting Professionals

Journalists don’t need to do a lot of crystal ball gazing, which is nice – reporting on the past is not nearly as nerve racking as speculating about the future. But every now and then, we have occasion to take a step back, or perhaps a step aside is a better visualization, and peek at...…

Gail Perry

 IRS Offers Variety of Payment Options, Penalty Waivers

February 15, 2019 

IRS Offers Variety of Payment Options, Penalty Waivers

The IRS urges people with a filing requirement and a balance due to file by the April 15 deadline even if they cannot pay in full. Taxpayers in this situation should pay what they can and consider a payment plan for the remaining balance.