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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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March 3, 2021 

Should Firms Require Staff to Get the Covid Vaccine?

CPA firms can handle the COVID-19 vaccine in a few different ways – from issuing a mandate for employees to get vaccinated to simply encouraging or incentivizing it. While there are benefits to a firm supporting the vaccination, there are also risks ...

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March 3, 2021 

Venture Capital Firms Focus on Greater Diversity and Equity

Amid heightened efforts to promote increasingly diverse, equitable and inclusive workforces over the past year, venture capital (VC) firms are taking note of their social and corporate responsibility in achieving greater gender, racial and ethnic ...

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March 2, 2021 

The Future of Finance Is Leaving Paper Checks in the Past

Given the choice, accounts payable professionals would make the move to digital payment solutions. And those who already have are quite pleased with the decision. Around three-quarters report being “very” or “extremely satisfied” with digital wallets...

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March 2, 2021 

IRS Interest Rates Stay Same for Q2 2021

The Internal Revenue Service says that interest rates will remain the same for the calendar quarter beginning April 1, 2021. The rates will be: 3% for overpayments [2%t in the case of a corporation]; 0.5%for the portion of a corporate overpayment exceeding $10,000; 3% for underpayments; and 5% for large corporate underpayments. Under the Internal...…

Small business coronavirus

March 2, 2021 

47% of SMBs Optimistic About Biden Administration PPP Changes

Based on this week’s Alignable PPP Pulse Poll of 8,705 small business owners, 47% indicated their support for President Biden’s proposed changes to the 2021 PPP, which better reflect the needs of solopreneurs and other SMBs with fewer than 20 employees.

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March 2, 2021 

AICPA Says PPP Needs to Be Extended

The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) has called upon Congress to extend the Paycheck Protection Program’s (PPP) March 31 loan application deadline. AICPA believes that Congress can still support small businesses and non-profits by ...

BDO

March 2, 2021 

BDO Acquires Digital Marketing Strategy Firm DemandGen

Dedicated to meeting the specific needs of the middle market and enterprise clients as they navigate disruption, BDO Digital offers clients a holistic portfolio of technology and transformation strategy capabilities, tailored by ....