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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 13, 2017 

Accounting Firm Gives Back with Day of Service

More than 550 employees, including 70 partners, took part in the Days of Service on May 31, June 7 and June 14. Participants spent the day at more than 30 community and non-profit programs in New York City, Long Island, New Jersey, Maryland, ...

 AccuFund Introduces Work Orders Module

July 13, 2017 

AccuFund Introduces Work Orders Module

Work Orders is available as a mobile application for iPads and Android tablet devices and as a standard module in the AccuFund Accounting Suite. Work Orders provides municipalities, state governments and nonprofit agencies, including their internal ...

 Tax Return Preparers Can Get Their PTIN for Free

July 12, 2017 

Tax Return Preparers Can Get Their PTIN for Free

Under the IRS system, anyone who prepares, or helps someone else prepare all or substantially all of a federal tax return, a claim for a refund or some other federal form in return for compensation must have a valid PTIN. For 2017, the fee was set at $50.

 How to Help Your Clients Comply With Minimum Wage Requirements

July 12, 2017 

How to Help Your Clients Comply With Minimum Wage Requirements

In January 2017, 40 states and jurisdictions across the country raised the minimum wage for small businesses. For many of those states, this increase is just the first step in a bigger plan to boost the minimum wage to $15 per hour within the next ...

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July 12, 2017 

7 Tips to Help Pay for College

Tax professionals most likely have many clients and prospects who have college-bound students in their families. A good way to extend the services you provide in your practice is to offer advice around the funding of a college education, including the ...

 AICPA Acquires High School Accounting Curriculum

July 12, 2017 

AICPA Acquires High School Accounting Curriculum

The American Institute of CPAs has acquired the Accounting Pilot and Bridge Project (APBP) from Dr. Dan Deines, CPA. The APBP, a program that trains high school educators to teach a higher level accounting curriculum, was founded in 2006 by Dr. Deines ...

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July 11, 2017 

BNA Report Shows Pass-Through Taxation Issues for Every State

Bloomberg BNA today announced the launch of its new Pass-Through Entity Navigator, the most comprehensive resource of its kind for tax practitioners, which provides detailed analysis and practical guidance on a state-by-state basis for each type of ...

 23% of Companies Haven’t Begun to Adopt New Lease Accounting Standards

July 11, 2017 

23% of Companies Haven’t Begun to Adopt New Lease Accounting Standards

While most corporate financial executives are assessing the impacts of the new lease accounting standards issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Boards (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), 23 percent of companies have yet to begin the initial adoption process of the standards, according to a new survey released by PwC US and CBRE...…

 New CFPB Rule Limits Companies’ Use of Mandatory Arbitration

July 11, 2017 

New CFPB Rule Limits Companies’ Use of Mandatory Arbitration

By forcing consumers to give up or go it alone – usually over small amounts – companies can sidestep the court system, avoid big refunds, and continue harmful practices. The CFPB’s new rule will deter wrongdoing by restoring consumers’ right to join ...

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July 11, 2017 

Tech Job Hiring Expected to Rise 5%

Twenty-one percent of CIOs surveyed expect to add members to their teams in the second half of the year; another 64 percent foresee maintaining staff levels by only filling vacant roles. An active hiring environment has intensified ...