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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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July 13, 2021 

IRS Starts Sending Unemployment Income Tax Refunds

The Internal Revenue Service will issue another round of refunds this week to nearly 4 million taxpayers who overpaid their taxes on unemployment compensation received last year. The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which became law in March, excluded up to $10,200 in 2020 unemployment compensation from taxable income calculations. The exclusion applied to...…

 IRS Nationwide Tax Forum Kicks Off July 20

July 9, 2021 

IRS Nationwide Tax Forum Kicks Off July 20

This Tuesday, July 13, is the last day for tax professionals to register to attend the 2021 IRS Virtual Nationwide Tax Forum and have access to all 30 webinars, including IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig’s keynote address on the first day of the forum. The 2021 Tax Forum is being held over a five-week period from...…

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July 9, 2021 

Vertex Introduces Taxamo Assure for New EU VAT E-Commerce Rules

The new EU VAT regulations impose additional compliance burdens and increased complexity with changes to rates, thresholds and remittance processes for all merchants remotely selling into the EU. Assure offers a complete solution for the merchant to ...

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July 8, 2021 

FICPA Announces Kristin Bivona as 94th Chair

A Fort Lauderdale native and a lifelong Floridian, she first joined the FICPA in 2005, having earned both her bachelor’s degree in accounting and MBA from her beloved alma mater, the University of Central Florida. She has since served on the Central ...

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July 8, 2021 

5 Ways for CPAs to Become Trusted Financial Advisors

The accounting landscape is changing rapidly as more CPA firms begin adding advisory services to their offerings. In one recent survey, 60 percent of firms reported offering strategic advisory services for clients. While the industry has known for ...

Justin Hatch

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July 7, 2021 

How to Calculate the Real Benefits of ROI

By taking a simple, conservative, holistic view of the hard cost savings and operational efficiencies you can achieve, it becomes much clearer what the ROI is, and more importantly, all the areas in which your organization can move forward by automating.

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July 7, 2021 

Strong Jobs Report Also Shows Wage Increases

Wage growth is also picking up as businesses raise pay to attract candidates. The June jobs report showed a hefty 2.3% month-over-month increase in non-supervisory workers’ average hourly earnings in the leisure and hospitality industry.

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July 7, 2021 

Gusto & Xendoo Launch Xendoo Payroll, Boosting Services to SMBs

Xendoo, a South Florida-based Fintech company that offers innovative online accounting and bookkeeping solutions, as well as data-driven insights, to small and medium business owners, has partnered with Gusto, a cloud-based payroll, benefits and human ...

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July 7, 2021 

Acumatica Opens London Office

Acumatica, the world’s fastest-growing cloud ERP company, announced the opening of its new London office and the hiring of Deljit (Del) Singh as country manager for the United Kingdom (U.K.).