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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

 Review of Client Write-Up Software — 2005

December 1, 2008 

Review of Client Write-Up Software — 2005

Easy to learn + intuitive setup + fast data entry + import/export efficiency + needs-integrated + flexible/modifiable use and output + affordability = Best of Class Write-Up software = PRODUCTIVITY.

 CCH To Host First User Conference

December 1, 2008 

CCH To Host First User Conference

Users of CCH Tax and Accounting applications will have the opportunity to learn from industry leaders and their peers at the software vendor’s inaugural user’s conference

 Tips & Tricks

December 1, 2008 

Tips & Tricks

Even as professional accountants continue to move toward the ideal of the paperless office, printers remain an integral component of all practices. Try as we might, some things still need to be on paper, whether because various local, state or federal entities haven’t quite gotten everything set up to receive electronically, or because a contract…

 A Conversation With Microsoft’s Bob Lewis

December 1, 2008 

A Conversation With Microsoft’s Bob Lewis

At the California Accounting and Business Show & Conference in Los Angeles, I caught up with Bob Lewis, Microsoft U.S. Small Business Group’s Senior Marketing Manager, Accounting Professionals, and we visited about his new role in representing the soon-to-be-released Small Business Accounting product to the accounting profession. Here are some excerpts from that conversation.

 The 2005 Innovation Awards

December 1, 2008 

The 2005 Innovation Awards

Technologies focusing on data security, productivity enhancement and client convenience took top honors at the 2005 Tax and Accounting Technology Innovation Awards, which were announced at a special reception on June 6, at the California Accounting and Business Show & Conference in Los Angeles.

 Sales & Use Tax Software — 2005

December 1, 2008 

Sales & Use Tax Software — 2005

Yes, compliance. Forms and remittances are due at regularly scheduled intervals. Sound familiar? Sure, it’s a monthly chore for most businesses, while others prepare forms and remit on a quarterly, semi-annual and annual basis. Today, remitted taxes are important to the operation of every level of government.

 Engagement & Trial Balance Software — 2005

December 1, 2008 

Engagement & Trial Balance Software — 2005

It’s near the end of summer, and you’ve probably been spending a lot of time thinking about your practice model: How can I be more profitable? Serve my clients better? Recapture some personal time? Prepare my firm for future succession? If you’re like most practitioners, the list goes on and on.