Narinder Sandhu and Pankaj Shukla, who left jobs developing payroll and accounting software for Intuit to build the Depreciate'em Web tool, think so.
Narinder Sandhu and Pankaj Shukla, who left jobs developing payroll and accounting software for Intuit (nasdaq: INTU - news - people ) to build the Depreciate'em Web tool, think so.
While a keyword job search for "certified public accountant" might turn up ads seeking a small-business chief financial officer who is also a CPA, semantic-search software would intuit that the user is looking for accounting jobs and list only those openings.
The latest developments in the software show that Intuit has learned the importance of mobility from its acquisition of Mint.com.
One of the most popular features of Intuit's Quicken financial software is the "PIN vault, " which holds users' various passwords so Quicken can fetch financial information from other sites.
In 1994, Intuit dodged being swallowed up by software behemoth Microsoft largely because regulators were bearing down on the company with antitrust objections.
When Intuit developed its small business accounting software package, the product developers realized that most small business owners were not familiar with accounting jargon, and in fact were intimidated by it.
Two factions like things just the way they are: tax software companies (especially Intuit, the maker of TurboTax) and government haters like Grover Norquist, president of the ironically named Americans for Tax Reform.
Intuit sells TurboTax, the tax preparation software used by millions of do-it-yourself taxpayers.
Block also loses market share to Intuit ( INTU) and its TurboTax software.
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Monika Khushf, an engineering director at Intuit, a California company that provides business software and services, discovered that Silicon Valley may very well be the valley of the boys.
Maybe this is why Intuit, and other on-premise financial management software vendors appear in no rush to go to the cloud.
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Her long relationship with Kleiner began soon after, in 1993, when Meeker picked up coverage of Intuit not long after Morgan took the Kleiner-backed software firm public.
Intuit says it knows of no problems related to the TurboTax software.
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While using tax software such as Block's TaxCut or TurboTax from Intuit (nasdaq: INTU - news - people ) certainly can help with the calculations, you still have to input all the information correctly--and to do that it helps to have at least some understanding of the law.
The software is manufactured by well known vendors like Microsoft, Intuit and FrontRange Solutions.
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In the past three years Intuit has made a priority of replacing the no-growth packaged-software business with faster-growing online versions of its big hits and with subscription services such as online and mobile banking software.
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