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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.

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 IRS Selects New Advisory Council Members

January 11, 2018 

IRS Selects New Advisory Council Members

The IRSAC, established in 1953, is an organized public forum for IRS officials and representatives of the public to discuss various issues in tax administration. The council provides the IRS Commissioner with relevant feedback, observations and ...

 Tax Professionals Need to Talk about the Cannabis Industry

January 11, 2018 

Tax Professionals Need to Talk about the Cannabis Industry

Today the cannabis industry is a $6 billion industry. In ten years it is projected that cannabis will be a $1 trillion industry. In my home state of Florida, cannabis became legal last year, however the state, as it legislated the laws surrounding ...

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January 11, 2018 

Ceterus Enables One-Stop Accounting with Ceterus Tax

Ceterus has launched Ceterus Tax, a new managed service that offloads more financial management responsibility to Ceterus from small business owners and franchisees. The tax service at Ceterus will be led by Ryan Cook, who has serviced hundreds of ...

CFO-Optimism

January 10, 2018 

CFO Optimism Surges to New High in Deloitte Survey

A new survey of chief financial officers shows a surge of optimism among these financial professionals about the current and future states of major economic regions as well as their own company prospects. After declining for two quarters, net optimism ...

 E. Cohen & Company Adds Donald Keninitz CPA, CGMA as Principal

January 10, 2018 

E. Cohen & Company Adds Donald Keninitz CPA, CGMA as Principal

In his new role as principal, Keninitz will expand the firm's capability in Government Contractor Consulting and M&A Services. Keninitz has over 35 years of experience in accounting, auditing and consulting, and adds deeper resources and expanded ...

 2018 Tax Reform Law – Index of Articles

January 9, 2018 

2018 Tax Reform Law – Index of Articles

The new tax reform law covers many aspects, from business taxation to individuals and deductions, which can make it challenging for taxpayers and tax professionals to keep up with the changes.

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January 9, 2018 

Estate Planning and the New 2018 Tax Law

The estate tax exemption and the gift tax work together in a sense that you have a unified lifetime credit for gifts, which match the estate tax exemption. The unified credit increases each year, along with the estate tax exemption. Each year there is ...

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January 9, 2018 

How the New Tax Law Affects Cryptocurrency

In 2014, the IRS classified cryptocurrency as property, and not currency. How property is taxed is that if you hold an asset for less than a year, and you sell it, you pay ordinary income tax at your ordinary tax rate. If you hold that asset for a year ..