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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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June 20, 2017 

Unraveling the Late Payment Challenge Through Automation

Businesses across all industries work with multiple partners, vendors and suppliers to support the need to serve customers. One-third of the businesses in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Brazil report that 20 percent of their client invoices value is more than 90 days overdue, according to the Payment Practices Barometer Americas. [1] Late payments...…

 Is Mandatory Retirement Legal?

June 20, 2017 

Is Mandatory Retirement Legal?

Laws seem to be moving towards making mandatory retirement illegal due to age discrimination. Can CPA firms still safely provide for mandatory retirement in their partner agreements?

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June 19, 2017 

2017 Review of Chrome River

Chrome River Mercury is the latest version of Chrome River’s expense management application that is well suited for larger businesses and global organizations. Along with expense management, Chrome River also offers Invoicing, Auditing, and ...

Mary Girsch-Bock

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June 19, 2017 

4 Mistakes that Can Kill a Brand

Remember Blockbuster? At one time, the chain of 9,000 video-rental stores seemed to be everywhere and families spent their Saturday evenings perusing the shelves for the latest releases.

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June 19, 2017 

2017 Review of ReceiptBank

Receipt Bank bills itself as an automated bookkeeping service designed for small to mid-sized businesses. There is also an accountants program that is designed work with their practice management application for an all-in-one solution to offer clients.

Mary Girsch-Bock

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June 19, 2017 

2017 Review of Expensify

Expensify is a good fit for businesses of just about any size. The product offers increasing levels of functionality depending on user requirements. Expensify can track a variety of expense types, as well as time and mileage.

Mary Girsch-Bock

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June 19, 2017 

2017 Review of Abacus Expense Management

Abacus is an automated expense reporting system well-suited for small to mid-sized businesses. Abacus offers two product versions; Starter, which is designed for businesses with less than 50 employees submitting expenses and Professional, with is for bus

Mary Girsch-Bock

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June 19, 2017 

2017 Review of Certify Expense Management

Certify is a travel and expense management software application that is best suited for small to mid-sized businesses that need to track travel and related expenses for multiple employees. The product offers seamless integration with QuickBooks ...

Mary Girsch-Bock

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June 19, 2017 

2017 Review of Concur Expense Management

Purchased by SAP in 2014, Concur Expense can be customized to support large enterprises who require extensive expense management for employees, as well as small companies who have limited needs for simple expense reporting. Additional options in Concur...

Mary Girsch-Bock