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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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 C-Level Execs May Be Liable For Cyber Breaches

December 7, 2016 

C-Level Execs May Be Liable For Cyber Breaches

When cybercriminals attack retailers and other businesses – potentially placing the data of millions of people at risk – C-level executives like CEOs and CIOs may lose their jobs and could be exposed to crippling lawsuits, warns ...

 FreshBooks Adds ApplePay Integration

December 7, 2016 

FreshBooks Adds ApplePay Integration

The cloud-based small business accounting app FreshBooks now has integration with with Apple Pay. Apple Pay allows clients to pay for invoices in an easy, secure and private way without having to enter their credit card details. It’s the latest for ...

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December 7, 2016 

Xero Completes Data Migration onto Amazon Web Services

The migration, which took just over two years to be architected and executed, saw more than 59 billion records, 3,000 apps and 120 databases securely transitioned to the AWS platform. Over that time, Xero added nearly half a million new customers.

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December 6, 2016 

Virtual CFO Services & Fees Growing, AICPA MAP Survey Shows

Client accounting services has become an important line of business for CPA firms in all size segments, even as overall client fees are growing, according to a survey sponsored by the AICPA Private Companies Practice Section and CPA.com.

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December 6, 2016 

Trump Selects Wealthiest Cabinet

Trump's choice for Commerce secretary, investor Wilbur Ross, is worth some $2.5 billion by Forbes' account, and Ross' likely deputy, Chicago Cubs co-owner Todd Ricketts, is in the billionaires club, too. Betsy DeVos, selected to head the Department of ...

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December 5, 2016 

Remembering Pearl Harbor: Dec. 7, 1941

"Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. " ~ President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dec. 8, 1941.

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December 5, 2016 

Xero Adds Apple Pay + Stripe Integration

Xero’s 862,000 subscribers can now offer their customers the ability to view and pay an invoice using Apple Pay through Stripe. Invoices paid with a payment service get paid almost 80 per cent faster than invoices that don’t offer a payment service.