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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

 Divvy Launches Secure Financial Platform

December 14, 2017 

Divvy Launches Secure Financial Platform

Using Divvy, businesses can prevent any fraudulent spending by assigning budgets to teams and individuals, tracking transactions in real-time, and analyzing spending across the entire company in one place.

Firm Automation

December 14, 2017 

Is Automation Killing Finance?

The automation shift that is now in motion boils down to this: By automating manual, slow, disconnected spreadsheet-based planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes, Finance increasingly will be able to spend far more time leveraging data than ...

 The Tax Accountant’s Guide to Law – 2018

December 13, 2017 

The Tax Accountant’s Guide to Law – 2018

Specializing in tax, you realize quickly that most of your math knowledge won’t help you here. Instead, you’d be better off taking some law classes so that you can navigate the US Tax Code. All of the items discussed in this article are just things I ...

Craig Smalley

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December 12, 2017 

How Accounting Firms Can Leverage the Gig Economy

While freelancing is a part-time or side-gig for many people, a growing number of people make it a full-time living. Twenty-nine percent of survey respondents said their freelance business is their only source of income, up from 17% in 2014.

Jim Boomer

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December 12, 2017 

CLA Acquires Accounting Firm NSBN

As one of the nation’s leading professional services firms, CLA has retained the agility to serve clients of all sizes and locations, while at the same time bringing an unparalleled depth of capabilities, all in one place.

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December 12, 2017 

U.S. Ranks 13th in Business Growth

According to UHY, there has been a two percent increase in US business starts in the last year. There were 11 million businesses in total in the US in 2016 compared to 10.8 million in 2015 (see table below).

 IIA Announces Conference in Dubai, Speaker Lineup

December 12, 2017 

IIA Announces Conference in Dubai, Speaker Lineup

The annual conference is considered the largest gathering of internal auditors in the world. It will take place at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, part of the Dubai World Trade Centre complex, May 6-9, 2018, and feature more ...

Kelly Grier Chair EY

December 9, 2017 

EY Appoints Kelly Grier as U.S. Chair and Managing Partner

In her new role, Kelly will lead the EY US firm and the EY Americas geographic area, which represents more than US$14.5b in combined revenues and more than 71,500 people in member firms in 31 countries. She will also join the EY Global Executive ...