Accounting

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.

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 Divvy Launches Secure Financial Platform

December 14, 2017 

Divvy Launches Secure Financial Platform

Using Divvy, businesses can prevent any fraudulent spending by assigning budgets to teams and individuals, tracking transactions in real-time, and analyzing spending across the entire company in one place.

Firm Automation

December 14, 2017 

Is Automation Killing Finance?

The automation shift that is now in motion boils down to this: By automating manual, slow, disconnected spreadsheet-based planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes, Finance increasingly will be able to spend far more time leveraging data than ...

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December 12, 2017 

U.S. Ranks 13th in Business Growth

According to UHY, there has been a two percent increase in US business starts in the last year. There were 11 million businesses in total in the US in 2016 compared to 10.8 million in 2015 (see table below).

 IIA Announces Conference in Dubai, Speaker Lineup

December 12, 2017 

IIA Announces Conference in Dubai, Speaker Lineup

The annual conference is considered the largest gathering of internal auditors in the world. It will take place at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre, part of the Dubai World Trade Centre complex, May 6-9, 2018, and feature more ...

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December 8, 2017 

How to Make Payments Less Painful for Small Businesses

New technology and automation have improved processes, but many organizations still struggle with inefficiencies. Customers may be resistant to working with new technology, businesses may not have the resources to handle each customer’s unique ...

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December 7, 2017 

The Top 10 Business Risks of 2018

The rapid pace of technological developments and disruptive innovations, along with organizational resistance to change, are the top concerns for boards of directors and business leaders around the world heading into 2018 ...

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December 6, 2017 

The Year-End Close Process: Trading Chaos for Order

While outdated New Year superstitions and beliefs have morphed into more modern views, the fact remains that many organizations continue to complete their close process in a way that is, in a word, outdated.

 Financial Pros Continue Struggle with Month-End Closes

December 6, 2017 

Financial Pros Continue Struggle with Month-End Closes

In addition, 51 percent of respondents indicated they use Microsoft Excel to manage period-end close processes, but 75 percent also indicated they spend five or more hours moving data from static reports produced by their ERP system to Excel for ...