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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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July 30, 2018 

Four Ways to Evolve Your Auditing Firm Today

By now, most of us have been exposed to some sort of doom and gloom message about automated systems and ‘robots’ taking over the future of the tax and accounting profession. Google “jobs most likely to be replaced by technology”, and you will notice ...

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July 30, 2018 

Entrepreneurs Optimistic About Business Outlook

On a scale of 1-100 with 1 representing the highest level of pessimism and 100 representing the peak of optimism, the Paychex poll revealed business owners rate their current business outlook overall at 65. Business outlook ranked second-highest to ...

 Most Workers Actively Seek or are Passively Open to a New Job

July 30, 2018 

Most Workers Actively Seek or are Passively Open to a New Job

The survey uncovered valuable insights for today’s employers around the current talent landscape and job seeker attitudes toward leaving or staying at a job. More than half of respondents (59.0 percent) think one to two years is the appropriate ...

 Housing Disparity: Black and Hispanic Renters Have Fewer Options

July 30, 2018 

Housing Disparity: Black and Hispanic Renters Have Fewer Options

Rental options for black renters were far fewer than what Asian or white renters could choose from last year. Black renters could afford less than a third of the rentals that white or Asian renters could afford in 2017. A renter making the median black household income ($39,647) in 2017 could afford 16.2 percent of...…

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July 30, 2018 

Future Uncertain for Deloitte CEO Engelbert

While Engelbert is eligible for another term at the helm of the firm, and could be renominated for the position, this likely means that Deloitte will appoint a new CEO during a leadership election in 2019.

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July 30, 2018 

IRS Offers Guidance on Changes to 529 Education Savings Plans

The PATH Act change added a special rule for a beneficiary of a 529 plan, usually a student, who receives a refund of tuition or other qualified education expenses. This can occur when a student drops a class mid-semester. If the beneficiary ...

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July 30, 2018 

CheckMark 1095 Software

1095 Software for Small Business CheckMark 1095 Software is a low-cost solution that allows Small and Medium-size businesses to report and file or transmit ACA (Affordable Care Act) requirements of health care coverage provided to employees and the IRS. The application is available for both Mac and Windows platform and has many features including easy...…

 Is Your Job Making You Fat? Most Workers Think So

July 30, 2018 

Is Your Job Making You Fat? Most Workers Think So

A new survey from CareerBuilder found that 57 percent of the nation's workforce believe they are overweight, and 45 percent believe they've gained weight at their present job, on par with last year. Twenty-six percent of all workers said they gained ...

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July 30, 2018 

BDO Acquires Tech Firm SWC Technology Partners

SWC specializes in the technology solutions that match the needs of midmarket organizations, including managed services, data analytics, cloud computing and custom application development. This encompasses infrastructure solutions such as unified ...