Latest Articles

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

 Oil & Gas Industry Creates Thousands of Jobs in California

April 22, 2014 

Oil & Gas Industry Creates Thousands of Jobs in California

The oil and gas industry creates about 49,000 jobs in Los Angeles County and billions in tax revenue in California. That's according to a new report conducted by the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp. and commissioned by the trade group Western States Petroleum Assn., which takes a look at the role of oil and…

 Treasury Secretary to Visit Hard-Hit Detroit

April 22, 2014 

Treasury Secretary to Visit Hard-Hit Detroit

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew will travel to Detroit later this week for talks with civic, business and nonprofit foundation leaders about how to help revitalize the bankrupt city.

 2014 Innovation Award Nominee: Enterprise Access by eFileCabinet

April 22, 2014 

2014 Innovation Award Nominee: Enterprise Access by eFileCabinet

2014 Innovation Award Nominee: Enterprise Access eFileCabinet Enterprise Access (EA) provides larger financial organizations to manage their compliance conformity with disparate offices or remote employees.  As a module that works within eFileCabinet, master account holders can use their login to access unique online cabinets that belong to a franchise, remote office or team.  While the...…

 2014 Innovation Award Nominee: Contentverse from Computhink

April 22, 2014 

2014 Innovation Award Nominee: Contentverse from Computhink

2014 Innovation Award Nominee: Contentverse Computhink Computhink is a team of software experts who have created a content management system that strengthens business and provides tools that keep teams organized, confident and empowered to run a more efficient organization.  Contentverse exemplifies innovation in the field of tax and accounting and has improved efficiency, productivity and...…

 2014 Innovation Award Nominee: Quick-Pay for QuickBooks, from Pensmore Software

April 22, 2014 

2014 Innovation Award Nominee: Quick-Pay for QuickBooks, from Pensmore Software

2014 Innovation Award Nominee: Quick-Pay for QuickBooks Pensmore Software Pensmore is solely focused on providing QuickBooks and QuickBooks Point of Sale users with a premier payments integration that is truly integrated, offering QuickBooks users the ability to have a choice with whom they process Visa, MasterCard, Discover & American Express transactions today.  True Integration No...…

 2014 Innovation Award Nominee: ScanWriter 2014 by Personable, Inc.

April 22, 2014 

2014 Innovation Award Nominee: ScanWriter 2014 by Personable, Inc.

2014 Innovation Award Nominee: ScanWriter 2014 Personable, Inc. Manually entering transactions is time consuming, tedious, and can lead to inaccuracies in accounting.  ScanWriter has revolutionized the accounting industry by providing the only data entry automation solution to accurately feed data from a PDF document directly into the accounting software.  And, ScanWriter documents the entered data...…

 2014 Innovation Award Nominee: Cloudfyi by Renovo Corporation

April 22, 2014 

2014 Innovation Award Nominee: Cloudfyi by Renovo Corporation

2014 Innovation Award Nominee: Cloudfyi Renovo Corporation Cloudfyi is our Renovofyi Web Based Financial Report Writer that has been released for the Cloud.  Now accountants can easily produce and disburse consolidated financial statements.  Users can easily logon with a browser, view their financial statements, drilldown to Locations, departments and transactional detail.  We save accountants lots...…

 2014 Innovation Award Nominee: Zoho Books

April 22, 2014 

2014 Innovation Award Nominee: Zoho Books

2014 Innovation Award Nominee: Zoho Books Zoho Corporation Zoho Books is a cloud based accounting software for small business owners. Ever since its launch in 2011, it has been helping business owners to keep track of their cash flow in a painless manner. Not just that, the android, iOS and Windows apps lets business owners...…

 2014 Innovation Award Nominee: Budget Maestro from Centage Corporation

April 22, 2014 

2014 Innovation Award Nominee: Budget Maestro from Centage Corporation

2014 Innovation Award Nominee: Budget Maestro Centage Corporation As any accounting or finance professional can attest, budgeting is an incredibly time intensive process and the opportunity for errors is boundless – especially when Excel is involved. How many times have you sent out an Excel document to be filled in only to have people add...…

 2014 Innovation Award Nominee: AdvanceFlow from Thomson Reuters

April 22, 2014 

2014 Innovation Award Nominee: AdvanceFlow from Thomson Reuters

2014 Innovation Award Nominee: AdvanceFlow Thomson Reuters AdvanceFlow takes cloud-based audit management to a new level, providing enterprise-level processing power in a completely cloud-based application. Designed for the largest professional audit firms, it makes engagements, workpapers, and colleague communications available securely in real time from anywhere. The full functionality of the program is available on...…

 2014 Innovation Award Nominee: BlackLine Financial Close Suite v 6.8

April 22, 2014 

2014 Innovation Award Nominee: BlackLine Financial Close Suite v 6.8

2014 Innovation Award Nominee: BlackLine Financial Close Suite v 6.8 BlackLine Systems Account reconciliation is an under-appreciated, yet critical, control to help ensure an organization's financial integrity.  Weaknesses and inefficiencies in the reconciliation process often lead to mistakes on the balance sheet and overall inaccuracies in the financial close.     An efficient, accurate and timely financial...…

 2014 Innovation Award Nominee: XCMscheduling

April 22, 2014 

2014 Innovation Award Nominee: XCMscheduling

2014 Innovation Award Nominee: XCMscheduling XCM Solutions XCMscheduling is the first complete scheduling package tightly integrated with a workflow automation system, empowering firms to dynamically manage teams and schedule work across all areas of the firm.  Having visibility into who has what now, what's coming and what's anticipated based on history – and the ability...…