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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

 Knowledge Assessment Calculator

July 26, 2011 

Knowledge Assessment Calculator

Evaluate and develop your staff with the Knowledge Assessment Calculator (KAC). The KAC assessments are a cost-effective measure of each team member’s knowledge. Even better, managers are provided a training plan designed for the particular individual or a comprehensive departmental training program. Screen job applicants for proven payroll knowledge and identify any areas for improvement....…

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July 26, 2011 

Amazon Fights California Sales Tax Law

Not too long ago, I wrote about “the problem with online sales tax” on our CPATechViews blog. There’s a long-reaching history with states wanting to get reveunes from sales to their residents when the merchant isn’t in that state. It started long before the internet (think mail order catalogues), but e-commerce has certainly aggravated the...…

Isaac M. O'Bannon

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July 26, 2011 

Conquering the Challenges of Sales & Use Tax

Sales and use tax compliance is an area of widely varying complexity. For many of the smallest entities that conduct taxable transactions, particularly physical retail businesses with only one or two locations, the process of applying the appropriate tax rate and reporting it to their states is often quite simple. And almost all states that...…

Isaac M. O'Bannon

 2010 review of AccountantsWorld — Practice Relief

July 25, 2011 

2010 review of AccountantsWorld — Practice Relief

888-999-1366 www.accountantsworld.com Practice Relief is a web-based SaaS (software as a service) product, a delivery method at the forefront of a growing trend for many software products. This minimizes or eliminates most installation, upgrade, maintenance and compatibility issues for the user organization. Even better, the staff can record their time and expenses from any location...…

Michael Roselius

 SecureCheck MICR Check Printing System

July 25, 2011 

SecureCheck MICR Check Printing System

SecureCheck is a MICR laser check/form printing solution that offers features designed to enhance the functionality, efficiency, and security of the check printing process.

 2010 review of ImagineTime, Inc. — ImagineTime Practice Management

July 22, 2011 

2010 review of ImagineTime, Inc. — ImagineTime Practice Management

6316 characters 877-520-2525 www.imaginetime.com ImagineTime offers several industry-specific practice management suites, including versions for tax and accounting professionals, attorneys, and engineers. Available modules include time and billing, due date management, contact management, staff scheduling and document management. Basic System Functions ImagineTime is developed in Microsoft Access, so users who are familiar with Access applications will...…

 Practice Management…So Much More than Time & Billing

July 21, 2011 

Practice Management…So Much More than Time & Billing

For years, the profession has thought of practice management as simply time and billing. This is no longer a sufficient definition. True practice management encompasses the flow of all data in a firm—including contact information, scheduling, project due dates, document management, phone messages, and, yes, time and billing. Today’s leading solutions are designed to help...…

Darren Root, CPA, CITP, CGMA