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|}} | equity = |}} | assets = |}} | net_income = |}} | operating_income = |}} | net income = $792 million USD (2011) | num_employees = 8,200〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Company Profile )〕 | homepage = (intuit.com ) }} Intuit Inc. is an American software company that develops financial and tax preparation software and related services for small businesses, accountants and individuals. It is incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Mountain View, California.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Intuit Inc. - Investor Relations )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Corporate Profile )〕 Intuit makes the personal finance programs Quicken and TurboTax, as well as the small business accounting program QuickBooks. In addition, they produce QuickBooks Point of Sale solution for small retailers, professional tax solutions ProSeries and Lacerte, and the Web-based corporate workgroup productivity solution QuickBase. The company also provides web based SAAS versions of quickbooks and multiple payroll products. The company maintains a number of foreign sales offices. It has R&D activity in Intuit Canada headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario and Intuit India headquartered in Bengaluru, India.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Locations )〕 International product versions are now predominantly produced by third-party localizers or licensees. ==History== The company was founded in 1983 by Scott Cook and Tom Proulx in Palo Alto, California.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Company Fast Facts )〕 Intuit was conceived by Scott Cook, whose prior work at Procter & Gamble helped him realize that personal computers would lend themselves towards replacements for paper-and-pencil based personal accounting. On his quest to find a programmer he ended up running into Tom Proulx at Stanford. The two started Intuit, which initially operated out of a modest room on University Avenue in Palo Alto. The first version of Quicken was coded in Microsoft's BASIC programming language for the IBM PC and UCSD Pascal for the Apple II by Tom Proulx and had to contend with a dozen serious competitors. In 1991 Microsoft decided to produce a competitor to Quicken called Microsoft Money. To win retailers' loyalty, Intuit included a US$15 rebate coupon, redeemable on software customers purchased in their stores. This was the first time a software company offered a rebate. Roughly around the same time the company engaged John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and diversified its product lineup. In 1993 Intuit went public and used the proceeds to make a key acquisition: the tax-preparation software company Chipsoft based in San Diego. The time after the IPO was marked by rapid growth and culminated with a buyout offer from Microsoft in 1994; at this time Intuit's market capitalization reached US$2 billion. When the buyout fell through because of United States Department of Justice's disapproval, the company came under intense pressure in late 1990s when Microsoft started to compete vigorously with its core Quicken business. In response, Intuit launched new web-based products and solutions and put more emphasis on QuickBooks and on TurboTax. The company made a number of investments around this time. Among others, it purchased a large stake in Excite and acquired Lacerte Software, a Dallas-based developer of tax preparation software used by tax professionals. It also divested itself of its online bill payment service unit and extended and strengthened its partnership with CheckFree. Today, Intuit has more than US$4 billion in annual revenue and a market capitalization of more than US$20 billion. Intuit has been ranked in ''Fortune'''s "Top 100 Best Companies to Work For" for the past several years. Intuit has been ranked in ''Fortunes "America's most admired software companies". In June 2013, Intuit announced it would sell its financial services unit to private equity firm Thoma Bravo for $1.03 billion. In June 2015, Intuit laid off approximately 5% of its workforce as part of a company reorganization. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Intuit」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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