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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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June 15, 2021 

New Indiana CPA Society President & CEO

Courtney Kincaid, CAE, has been promoted to president and CEO of the Indiana CPA Society. She is the sixth CEO in the organization's 106-year history and succeeds Jennifer Briggs, CAE.

 Mark McKinley To Lead Top 100 CPA Firm Rea & Associates

June 15, 2021 

Mark McKinley To Lead Top 100 CPA Firm Rea & Associates

McKinley joined Rea & Associates as a staff accountant in 1994 and quickly grew through the ranks to become a principal. In addition to managing countless assurance, tax, and consulting engagements, he helped set the course for several of the firm’s ...

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June 14, 2021 

Essential Steps to Transition into Advisory Services

Now is the perfect time to make those business transitions you’ve been putting off. Like your spring cleaning, it can feel like a daunting task to make significant changes to your business model. You could say “my clients wouldn’t like a transition” or...

Jim Buffington

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June 14, 2021 

A COVID Tax Season Post-Mortem for 2021

Running an accounting practice has always come with unique challenges, but the COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented challenges, as well as some less-obvious opportunities.

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June 14, 2021 

Problem Employees – Develop or Dismiss?

Not until the last several years, while intermittently dealing with an acute lack of available applicants to fill job vacancies, have employers begun to more frequently struggle with the decision of whether to discharge a poor-performing or problem ...

Richard D. Alaniz, JD

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June 14, 2021 

Report Examines Decline in Number of CPAs

The result of an in-depth survey of more than 3,100 accounting students, graduates, and professionals predominantly under age 35, “Decoding the Decline” reveals respondents’ top challenges, perceptions, and influencers impacting their decisions to ...

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June 14, 2021 

Better Advisory Through Genuine Connection

The biggest stereotype about accountants is that we’re dry, boring numbers people. If you buy into the popular image, the perfect accountant would be an emotionless number cruncher, scarcely different from a high-powered computer. But nothing could be ...

Amy Vetter

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June 13, 2021 

Armanino Acquires St. Louis Accounting Firm Brown Smith Wallace

Top-100 accounting and advisory firm Brown Smith Wallace is joining forces with Armanino LLP, effective August 1, 2021, officials from both firms have announced. The firm will carry the Armanino LLP name and maintain its current St. Louis operations.