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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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December 17, 2018 

Firm Leaders: Are Your People Lost?

Understanding the mind of the new millennial generation is one of the growing challenges firms of all sizes are faced with today and this challenge often results in firms feeling that these new millennials are entitled and lazy, but are they really ...

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 Monthly Imports Reach 2 Million Containers Ahead of Tariffs

December 17, 2018 

Monthly Imports Reach 2 Million Containers Ahead of Tariffs

Imports at the nation’s major retail container ports have set another new record, reaching 2 million containers in a single month for the first time as retailers continued to bring merchandise into the country ahead of a now-postponed increase in ...

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December 17, 2018 

Millennials Better at Avoiding Holiday Debt

This holiday season, millennials (ages 20-37) are most likely to create a spending plan, stick to it (76 percent) and pay off balances in full before the New Year (49 percent) – according to TD Bank's Merry Money Holiday Spending Survey.

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December 17, 2018 

Dec. 31 is Tax Deadline for Retirement Plan Distributions

The required distribution rules apply to owners of traditional, Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) and Savings Incentive Match Plans for Employees (SIMPLE) IRAs. Roth IRAs don’t require distributions while the original owner is alive. RMDs also apply to...

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December 17, 2018 

EY Expands Tax & Finance Operate Digital Solution with Microsoft

Based on automated data capture, standardization and reuse, as well as featuring advanced analytics and intelligent automation, the platform provides tax constituents with access to a growing suite of tax and finance services while becoming the ...

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December 17, 2018 

IRS Gives Relief to Nonprofits for Transportation Benefits

Prior to the TCJA, nonprofits and for-profit entities could provide certain transportation benefits to employees that were excluded from tax, up to a stated monthly amount, and deductible by the organization. The maximum exclusion, which was indexed ...

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December 17, 2018 

Paychex Adds Integration with QuickBooks Online

The new integration allows users to quickly and easily connect data from the Paychex GLS, so it flows directly into their QuickBooks Online accounting package through a convenient “Link and Sync” tool in Paychex GLS. Through the integration, users can ...

 blumshapiro Elects Brooke Simpson as Partner

December 17, 2018 

blumshapiro Elects Brooke Simpson as Partner

With over 15 years of tax planning experience, Simpson has provided sound strategic planning for both U.S. and multi-national corporations. She has worked as an International Tax Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Boston since 2004, and since ...