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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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December 10, 2021 

Supply Chain Issues Impacting Operations at Most Hotels

Supply chain disruptions are impacting the operations of more than eight in ten surveyed hotels, and nearly three in four hotel operators say the disruptions are negatively impacting their business revenue, according to a new survey of American Hotel ...

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December 7, 2021 

Client 2.0 – How to Meet Your Clients’ Next Needs

Your clients that survived the pandemic did so by pivoting, adapting and downright changing in ways they may have never expected. While their core model or values may be the same, there’s something new about them, influenced by their experiences over ...

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December 3, 2021 

How to Back Out of Wayfair: Can a Business De-Register When Sales Drop?

Once a remote seller establishes economic nexus with a state, it must register with the state tax department and begin collecting, remitting, and filing sales tax as required by law. But what happens if that same seller’s sales eventually fall beneath the state’s economic nexus threshold? Can a business cancel its sales tax registration? If...…

Gail Cole

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November 30, 2021 

180 Million Americans Shopped During Thanksgiving Weekend

Black Friday remained the most popular day for in-store shopping, with 66.5 million shoppers, followed by 51 million shoppers on Small Business Saturday. The importance of supporting local businesses remained top of mind for many consumers, with 71%...

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November 24, 2021 

Retailers Expect Surge in Thanksgiving Weekend Sales: Up to 10% Growth

Nearly 2 million more people than last year are expected to shop from Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday this year even as consumers have continued the trend of starting their holiday shopping earlier in the year, according to the annual survey released today by the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics. “We’re expecting...…

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November 23, 2021 

Checklist for End-of-Year Activities with Clients

As we march toward the end of another challenging year, the question remains if we are prepared for a glitch-free wrap of the business year. Along with tax and accounting, there are some tax, compliance, legal, information technology (IT), and ...

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November 16, 2021 

Why Are U.S. Small Businesses Slowest to Adopt Better Technology?

Simple changes in habits and process could prove more effective than costly educational campaigns in helping small businesses take advantage of digital technology’s benefits, according to behavioral science research conducted by Xero, the global small ...

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November 9, 2021 

Cities Look to Tax Online Streaming Services

Transitioning from cable to streaming services can increase choice and reduce costs for consumers, but the more people cut the cord, the less tax revenue local governments receive. That’s the crux of ongoing David-versus-Goliath-style battles in Texas ...

Gail Cole