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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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September 14, 2017 

Accounting for Inventory Shrinkage After a Major Loss

Your small business clients who suffer inventory shrinkage – whether it’s from a natural disaster like Hurricane Harvey or Irma, or theft or simple mismanagement – must account for the event on their financial books. Generally, a firm can enter a ...

Ken Berry, JD

 The Fight for $15, and More

September 14, 2017 

The Fight for $15, and More

Over the past several years we have seen nationwide efforts, often precipitated by unions, to increase the minimum wage at the local level to $15 as a means of addressing economic inequality. The movement, called the "Fight for $15," has seen some ...

Richard D. Alaniz, JD

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September 14, 2017 

2017 Reviews of Retail Point-of-Sale Systems

As we all know, the historical prototype for a retail business was a brick and mortar store, or multiple stores. But today, these same stores are competing with a variety of other retailers including Internet-only sellers, mobile-only retailers, and ...

Mary Girsch-Bock

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September 14, 2017 

2017 Review of AccuPOS

AccuPOS is a stand-alone point of sale product that integrates with both QuickBooks and Sage financial applications. AccuPOS is well suited for specialty and niche retailers as well as restaurants and bars. AccuPOS offers a variety of versions of its ...

Mary Girsch-Bock

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September 14, 2017 

2017 Review of Celerant Stratus Point-of-Sale

Celerant Stratus is an all-inclusive system designed for retail businesses and those that sell products both in-store and online. The product offers a mobile app that supports both iOS and Android devices, and is platform independent and can be ...

Mary Girsch-Bock

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September 14, 2017 

2017 Review of Cumulus Retail by CAM Commerce

Cumulus Retail from CAM Commerce is an SaaS delivered point of sale system ideally suited for small to mid-sized retail businesses. With a long list of features included in the system, as well as the availability of three product versions, Cumulus ...

Mary Girsch-Bock

KeystrokePOSns

September 14, 2017 

2017 Review of Keystroke Advanced Point of Sale

Keystroke Advanced from Specialized Business Solutions is part of the trio of point of sale products offered. Designed to be installed on a local computer or network, Keystroke Express is best suited for small and growing retail businesses. Keystroke ...

Mary Girsch-Bock

QuickBooks Point of Sale

September 14, 2017 

2017 Review of QuickBooks Point of Sale Desktop

QuickBooks Point of Sale Desktop 12.0 is best suited for small to mid-sized retail businesses that are looking for a point of sale product that will integrate with other QuickBooks applications. QuickBooks Point of Sale Desktop is available in three ...

Mary Girsch-Bock