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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

 SWK Technologies Achieves Sage Diamond Level Authorized Partner Status

April 15, 2010 

SWK Technologies Achieves Sage Diamond Level Authorized Partner Status

Livingston, N.J., April 15, 2010 – SWK Technologies, Inc., a Sage gold-certified developer and business partner for more than 20 years, recently achieved Diamond Level Authorized Partner status – the highest level achievement for Sage business partners based on sales volume and outstanding client service. “Only a very small percentage of Sage’s business partners achieve...…

 How’s Your Firm’s Website?

April 6, 2010 

How’s Your Firm’s Website?

As technologically reliant as modern tax and accounting professionals are, it is astounding, at least to me, that about half of practices in the U.S. don’t even bother to have a website. Yet, that’s what our annual reader surveys and Productivity Survey continues to show, and both correspond with measurements made by the AICPA and...…

Isaac M. O'Bannon

 2010 Tax Season…Coming to a close

April 5, 2010 

2010 Tax Season…Coming to a close

As the 2010 busy season comes to a close in a little over a week, I’m sure many of my fellow colleagues will take a few days to rest and relax. As for me, I’m planning a quiet trip with my wife to see our son in the Air Force. The weeks following busy season...…

Darren Root, CPA, CITP, CGMA

 Defining Success Leads to Opportunities

April 2, 2010 

Defining Success Leads to Opportunities

I wanted to build on Rick Telberg’s excellent story on CPA Trendlines on how business owners define success. According to research conducted by the Enterprise Council on Small Business, Rick wrote that “business owners surprisingly found that ‘satisfaction” was the primary way they defined success, followed by ‘growth.’ They asked business owners to define what...…

Scott Cytron

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March 29, 2010 

1040 Review

Are you doing everything you can for your tax clients?

 64-Bit versus 32-Bit: What Should Our Firm Purchase Now?

March 24, 2010 

64-Bit versus 32-Bit: What Should Our Firm Purchase Now?

64-bit computing is here! Microsoft has forced the 64-bit transition by making Exchange 2007 only available in 64-bit, and now Windows Server 2008 R2 is only available in 64-bit. These two fundamental changes have increased the pace of the transition to 64-bit computing. As the transition speed increases, does it make sense to purchase 32-bit...…

John D. Anderson

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March 23, 2010 

1099-Etc W2 and 1099 Filer

Prepares all 1099 forms and W-2 forms including 1096, W-2C, W-3C, 940-EZ and 1042-S forms. The fast and easy-to-use form entry screens look like the actual forms. Two E-File options are available. Starting at $79.

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March 23, 2010 

AMS Payroll

AMS Payroll is a full featured after-the-fact/live payroll program that prepares the state wage forms for ALL states including DC and PR. Most state forms can be printed using the Software Generated Forms option.