After more than 20 years, Intuit continues to transform business and financial management for small businesses, accounting professionals and consumers. The companys mission is to create new ways to manage personal finances and small businesses that are so profound and simple, customers cannot imagine going back to the old way. Intuits "Right for My Business" strategy for small business customers delivers specially designed, industry-specific business management solutions, and develops accounting solutions for bigger, more complex businesses. Intuit also offers a broad array of tools to help businesses process payroll, manage employees, administer benefit programs and offer retirement plans. What began as small business accounting with QuickBooks® software is now a more comprehensive set of seamless services that go beyond accounting to help small businesses manage other aspects of their operation. Intuit continues to expand its tax preparation offerings, providing powerful and easy-to-use products and services to taxpayers and accounting professionals. For individual taxpayers, Intuit offers TurboTax® software, the No. 1-selling tax software program in the U.S. and TurboTax Online for tax year 2005, the most popular online tax preparation and filing service. Intuit pioneered Instant Data Entry, which permits taxpayers to download 1099 investment data and W-2 wage data directly from the source into their tax returns. ProSeries® and Lacerte® are Intuits industry-leading tax preparation software suites for professional accountants. One in four individual tax returns completed in the U.S. is prepared with an Intuit tax product. Intuit remains focused on helping consumers with money management. Introduced in 1984, Quicken® software, the companys first product, has become synonymous with personal finance. Over the past two-decades, more people have bought Quicken than all other personal finance software products combined. Qu
