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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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December 7, 2021 

Canopy Receives $35 Million in Funding

Canopy, a cloud-based practice management platform for accounting professionals, has received $35 million in Series BB funding, led by Ten Coves Capital along with significant investments from current investors NewView Capital, Pelion Partners, Tenaya ...

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December 7, 2021 

Client 2.0 – How to Meet Your Clients’ Next Needs

Your clients that survived the pandemic did so by pivoting, adapting and downright changing in ways they may have never expected. While their core model or values may be the same, there’s something new about them, influenced by their experiences over ...

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December 4, 2021 

Evaluating the New Tax Season Normal for Tax Advisors

By Jim Guarino, CPA, PFS, CFP®, MST. I was recently asked if I thought the upcoming tax season will represent a return to normal for tax advisors and their clients. To be honest, I thought, “What’s normal anymore?” If normal can be defined as adapting to perpetual change, then the answer is an emphatic “YES!”...…

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December 3, 2021 

AccountantsWorld Featured on ION Television as Great Innovation

Cloud accounting software maker AccountantsWorld, which provides technology for professional accounting firms, was recently featured on an episode of ION Television’s World’s Greatest. The segment gave an overview of the people behind AccountantsWorld, and how their technologies help firms be more productive and efficient.

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December 3, 2021 

BKD CEO Highlights New Initiatives, Growth in Annual Keynote

BKD CPAs & Advisors is poised to further enhance the ways in which it serves its clients across the country in 2022, CEO Tom Watson said in a keynote address to employees at the firm's recent annual Leadership Conference held in St. Louis. Watson, who ...

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December 3, 2021 

SurePrep and Thomson Reuters Partner for Streamlined Tax Prep

Thomson Reuters and SurePrep will provide open and royalty-free access to each other’s Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), enabling increased investment in product integration that ultimately benefits firms by streamlining and automating ...

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December 3, 2021 

How to Back Out of Wayfair: Can a Business De-Register When Sales Drop?

Once a remote seller establishes economic nexus with a state, it must register with the state tax department and begin collecting, remitting, and filing sales tax as required by law. But what happens if that same seller’s sales eventually fall beneath the state’s economic nexus threshold? Can a business cancel its sales tax registration? If...…

Gail Cole

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December 2, 2021 

6 Tips for Managing Technostress

Where would we be without technology? It allows us to work from anywhere, communicate with people across the globe in an instant, and get more done in less time than we’ve ever dreamed possible. But there’s a downside: technostress.

Marc Staut