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

RightNetworks_1028

November 1, 2021 

How Accounting Firms Can Use Client Service as a Competitive Weapon

Competition is fierce in the accounting industry, with compliance services becoming commoditized and online alternatives siphoning off clients. Firms need to differentiate themselves, and the best way to do that is to provide superior client service. Read this eBook to discover: Why the accounting industry has become so competitive How mastering client service enables firms...…

wolters-kluwer-logo

October 29, 2021 

Wolters Kluwer Introduces CCH Axcess Marketplace

Firms already using award-winning CCH Axcess solutions gain access to a dedicated website where they can find third-party integrations that leverage the data and services in their own client databases and CCH Axcess solutions so they can expand the ...

AICPA_new 2019_1_.5b1fd9ff31925

October 29, 2021 

30 CPAs Graduate from 2021 AICPA Leadership Academy

The Leadership Academy features career-development workshops and sessions with some of the accounting profession’s most prominent leaders, including William (Bill) Pirolli, CPA/CFF/PFS, CGMA, chairman of the American Institute of CPAs and ...

Tax_credits

October 28, 2021 

AICPA Advocates on Behalf of Businesses that Benefit from the Employee Retention Credit

The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) has sent a letter to Congressional leadership on the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways & Means Committee concerning a provision of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act which, if enacted, would terminate the employee retention credit by sunsetting its benefits three months early, effective October 1, 2021....…

CEO Video Series: Putting Destination CPA Back on Accounting Students’ Radar

October 28, 2021 

CEO Video Series: Putting Destination CPA Back on Accounting Students’ Radar

It used to be that if you earned an accounting degree, earning your CPA credential was your next destination. The CPA credential has historically presented accounting graduates with a runway to professional success. Yet, since 2016, we’ve watched the number of new CPAs decline. Learn more about what’s behind the decline in the CPA pipeline...…

mergers_and_acquisition_1_.54298f636f49a

October 28, 2021 

Technology – A Critical Driver of M&A Synergy

M&A value creation is traditionally viewed through the lens of three synergies: revenue, cost and capital. Technology is a fourth key driver of synergy that is often underestimated. Traditionally viewed as a subset of cost synergies, technology ...

 Patriot Software Secures Series-A Funding Round

October 28, 2021 

Patriot Software Secures Series-A Funding Round

Founded in 2002, Patriot Software self-funded its growth for many years. In addition to spinning off its former subsidiary, Top Echelon Software, Patriot raised millions in capital through Private Placement and Regulation D stock offerings led by ...

BlackLine-Logo-02

October 27, 2021 

BlackLine Launches Unifed Platform for AR Automation

BlackLine’s AI-powered unified AR automation platform uses intelligent automation to help customers release cash from debtors faster, unleash working capital and accelerate their journeys to modern accounting and financial operations excellence.

AICPA_new 2019_1_.5b1fd9ff31925

October 27, 2021 

AICPA Comments on Passthrough Tax Payment Deductibility

The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) has submitted recommendations to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) regarding the deductibility of payments by passthrough entities (PTE), such as partnerships and S corporations, for certain state and local ...