Latest Articles

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

BKD_DHG_Logo

February 17, 2022 

BKD, DHG Accounting Firms Merge to Create Top-10 National Professional Services Firm

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. and CHARLOTTE, N.C., Feb. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The leading accounting firms of BKD and DHG today jointly announced they will merge to create a new, Top-10, national professional services firm with $1.4 billion in revenue, setting the stage for a national growth strategy. With complementary operations, geographies and nearly two centuries of legacy service between them, the two firms together will operate under...…

money 7_1_.5a57a24dc64bb

February 15, 2022 

Just Over 50 Percent of Americans Have Emergency Savings

This figure is down from 54% last year but notably improved from 44% in 2019 and 49% in 2020. The percentage of households with more credit card debt than emergency savings, 22%, was down from 27% last year and is the lowest since 2018 (21%).

import pixabay echosystem dock-441989_960_720

February 14, 2022 

Growth of Imported Retail Products Remains High

Imports saw year-over-year growth as high as 65 percent in some months during 2021. That was the result of increased consumer demand, retailers’ efforts to stock up to mitigate supply chain challenges, and comparisons against periods early in 2020 when...

artificial_intelligence mind tech_1_.56e6c9c20bbbc

February 10, 2022 

Is AI Still Too Expensive for Most Firms?

If you Google the meaning of AI, I strongly recommend you don’t click on some of the videos that appear if you’re on a company laptop, it’s really not something you’d want in your history. So, let’s park one definition here; if you wish for further ...

 Use of Checks Drops by Businesses

February 10, 2022 

Use of Checks Drops by Businesses

Treasury and other financial professionals can now compare their costs of making and receiving seven types of payments--check, ACH credits and debits; wires; credit and debit cards; real time payments, and virtual cards--against benchmarks for ...

cyber security data_10816596

February 9, 2022 

Keeping Firm and Client Data Safe

There are a variety of tools on the market such as antivirus software and malware that can help protect your system from intrusion. But there are many other things you can do to ensure that your system remains secure and out of the hands of criminals.

Mary Girsch-Bock

Diversity-Pixabay-Geralt

February 9, 2022 

How Firms Can Survive the Great Resignation

This has been a trying time for firms and in the workforce as a whole for a number of reasons, but the “Great Resignation” has forced every industry, including tax and accounting professionals and business owners, to

leasequery-logo[1]

February 9, 2022 

LeaseQuery Announces Additions to Executive Team

LeaseQuery has announced several strategic changes to its executive team, including the appointment of Joe Gruca as chief revenue officer; the promotion of Joe Schab to president and chief operating officer; the promotion of Chris Ramsey to ...