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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

 New XBRL GAAP Pension Analysis Tool Finds Errors in SEC Filings

April 23, 2014 

New XBRL GAAP Pension Analysis Tool Finds Errors in SEC Filings

XBRL US has announced the publication of its new online US GAAP Pension Analyzer. The tool is available for free to public company reporting managers that runs a set of rules against the pension disclosure within an XBRL-formatted financial statement. XBRL US is the nonprofit consortium for XBRL reporting in the US.

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April 23, 2014 

Marcum Launches Health Insurance Marketplace

Businesses, groups and individuals looking for health insurance and information now have a new resource, courtesy of the accounting firm Marcum LLP. The firm's affiliate, Marcum Financial Services, which is also a member of the Marcum Group of companies, has launched the Marcum Benefits Marketplace, a one-stop resource for health insurance delivery for groups and…

 Senate Bill Aims to Fix IRS Farm Equipment Expense Change

April 23, 2014 

Senate Bill Aims to Fix IRS Farm Equipment Expense Change

United States Senators John Hoeven, R-N.D., and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., have introduced a bill to modify new IRS rules they say make it too difficult for family farmers and small business owners to deduct equipment repair and supply expenses.

 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...…