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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

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January 10, 2022 

IRS to Start Accepting Tax Returns on Jan. 24, 2022

The filing deadline to submit 2021 tax returns or an extension to file and pay tax owed is Monday, April 18, 2022, for most taxpayers. By law, Washington, D.C., holidays impact tax deadlines for everyone in the same way federal holidays do.

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January 10, 2022 

2 Firms + 1 Merger = One Firm Culture

Although the payoff of a merger can be great, it can also be high risk, not just in a financial sense. To make the merger successful, both firms need to do a great deal of planning around integrating company culture.

Sandra Wiley

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January 10, 2022 

AP Automation for More Meaningful Work

Ideally, these tools should be intelligent automation solutions - meaning that they learn and optimize the process automatically over time. Furthermore, they should be compliant with payment security and AP reporting standards.

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January 10, 2022 

CBIZ Acquires Accounting Firm Marks Paneth

The transaction is expected to add approximately $138 million of revenue to CBIZ in 2022. Eliminating the impact of the transaction related costs and first year integration costs, the contribution to earnings per share in 2022 is expected to be ...

Isaac M. O'Bannon

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January 10, 2022 

IRS Issues Annual Report

Since the pandemic began, the IRS has successfully delivered more than $1.5 trillion to people across the nation through Economic Impact Payments, tax refunds and advance Child Tax Credit payments.

Isaac M. O'Bannon