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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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April 16, 2015 

Should Accounting Firms Manage Payroll or Use an Outsourced Solution?

Accurate and timely payroll management is paramount to the successful operation of any business, whether a company has five employees or 5,000. If employees are not paid on time — and if employers fail to follow state and federal directives for employee classification, payroll tax filing, and other regulatory issues—management can soon find itself facing...…

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April 16, 2015 

2015 Review of Intuit Tax Online

Intuit Tax Online is a tax solution intended for sole-practitioners and small firms looking for a mobile tax preparation option. New this year are continued efforts to enhance the user interface and the ability to capture electronic signatures.

Steven M. Phelan

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April 15, 2015 

2015 Review of Thomson Reuters GoSystem Tax RS

GoSystem Tax RS provides a solution to serve the most sophisticated domestic and international tax situations. GoSystem Tax RS is fully scalable to meet the needs of medium size firms and larger and offers a reliable platform to handle large data sets.

Steven M. Phelan

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April 15, 2015 

2015 Review of Intuit Lacerte Tax

Lacerte is a tax solution offering from Intuit that has the speed, reliability and comprehensiveness to complete most returns quickly and accurately. Lacerte includes several enhancements for 2014 including improvements in PDF generation, expanded ...

Steven M. Phelan

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April 15, 2015 

Focus on Risk Management Helps Companies Achieve Better Growth

While 73 percent of executives feel outside risks are on the rise, companies are generally not meeting these increased risks with improved risk management. Only 12 percent of responding companies demonstrated qualities that marked them as true risk ...

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April 15, 2015 

Hey Millennials: What Are You Doing With Your Tax Refund?

Millennials are about to get millions of dollars from the IRS. What they plan on doing with it may tell us whether they will be the frugal types they are sometimes credited with, or will follow in the free-spending footsteps of the generation before them.