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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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 AICPA: Accounting Firms Increasing Adoption of Cloud Services

November 20, 2013 

AICPA: Accounting Firms Increasing Adoption of Cloud Services

More CPA firms are embracing cloud solutions to transform their business, although with a greater focus on data security than a year ago, according to a recent survey by CPA2Biz, the technology subsidiary of the American Institute of CPAs.

 How Analytical Procedures Help Evaluation of Financial Data

November 20, 2013 

How Analytical Procedures Help Evaluation of Financial Data

Analytical procedures are used by accountants in multiple levels of service, and they are critical to evaluating financial data and variations that occur in financial data. But selecting and documenting analytical procedures are subjective processes, so the area of analytical procedures is one that can cause frustration for accountants.

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November 20, 2013 

Free CPE Course: Excel Speed Tips (2 Hours Credit)

In this on-demand webcast Excel expert David Ringstrom, CPA shares dozens of the tricks that he uses to fly through Excel every day. Remember, either you work Excel, or it works you! Designed For Practitioners who may benefit from using Excel more effectively. Topics Covered Discover overlooked features that save significant time Use keyboard shortcuts...…

 Open Systems’ TRAVERSE Certified by Avalara

November 20, 2013 

Open Systems’ TRAVERSE Certified by Avalara

Establishes a partnership through which Open Systems' customers can now use Avalara’s AvaTax capabilities from within the TRAVERSE v 10.5 existing workflow to automatically calculate the final sales tax amount on every invoice.

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November 20, 2013 

Oregon Unemployment Rate at 5-Year Low

Oregon's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent in October, its lowest point this year. Unemployment was at 7.8 percent in September and 8.1 percent in August.