UNITED STATES
FORM 10-K
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Annual Report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 | |
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Transition report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 | |
Commission File Number 0-21180
INTUIT INC.
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Delaware
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(State of incorporation)
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(IRS Employer Identification No.) | |
| 2535 Garcia Avenue, Mountain View, CA 94043 | ||
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| (650) 944-6000 | ||
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Securities registered pursuant to
Section 12(b) of the Act:
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None | |
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Securities registered pursuant to
Section 12(g) of the Act:
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Common Stock, $0.01 par value Preferred Stock Purchase Rights |
Indicate by a check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the Registrant was required to file such reports); and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes x No o
Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of Registrants knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. o
As of August 30, 2002, there were 209,163,557 shares of the Registrants common stock, $0.01 par value, outstanding. This is the only outstanding class of common stock of the Registrant. As of that date, the aggregate market value of the shares of common stock held by non-affiliates of the Registrant (based on the closing price of $44.63 for the common stock as quoted by the Nasdaq Stock Market on that date), was approximately $8,559,693,295.
DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE
Portions of the Registrants definitive Proxy Statement for its Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held in December 2002 are incorporated by reference into Part III of this report on Form 10-K.
FISCAL 2002 FORM 10-K
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Business
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Properties
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Selected Financial Data
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Managements Discussion and Analysis of
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Intuit, the Intuit logo, QuickBooks, Quicken, TurboTax, ProSeries, Lacerte, FundWare and QuickBase, among others, are registered trademarks and/or registered service marks of Intuit Inc. in the United States and other countries. Intuit Master Builder, MRI and Intuit Eclipse, among others, are trademarks and/or service marks of Intuit Inc., or one of its subsidiaries, in the United States and other countries. Other parties marks are the property of their respective owners and should be treated as such.
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PART I
CORPORATE BACKGROUND
Intuit began operations in March 1983 and was incorporated in California in March 1984. In March 1993, we reincorporated in Delaware and completed our initial public offering. Our principal executive offices are located at 2535 Garcia Avenue, Mountain View, California, 94043, and our telephone number is (650) 944-6000. When we refer to we, our or Intuit in this Form 10-K, we mean the current Delaware corporation (Intuit Inc.) and its California predecessor, as well as all of our consolidated subsidiaries.
CAUTION REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Throughout this Report, there are forward-looking statements that are based upon our current expectations, estimates and projections about our business and our industry, and that reflect our beliefs and assumptions based upon information available to us at the date of this Report. In some cases, you can identify these statements by words such as may, might, will, should, expects, plans, anticipates, believes, estimates, predicts, potential or continue, and other similar terms. These forward-looking statements include, among other things, projections of our future financial performance, our anticipated growth, our strategies and trends we anticipate in our businesses and the markets in which we operate and the competitive nature and anticipated growth of those markets.
We caution investors that forward-looking statements are only predictions, based upon our current expectations about future events. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Our actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Some of the important factors that could cause our results to differ are discussed in Item 7, Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Risks That Could Affect Future Results. We encourage you to read that section carefully. You should carefully consider those risks, in addition to the other information in this Report and in our other filings with the SEC, before deciding to invest in our stock or to maintain or change your investment. We caution investors not to rely on these forward-looking statements, which reflect managements analysis only as of the date of this Report. We undertake no obligation to revise or update any forward-looking statement for any reason.
BUSINESS OVERVIEW
Intuits Mission: Revolutionizing Financial and Business Management
Our mission is to revolutionize how people manage their financial lives, and how small businesses and accounting professionals manage their businesses. Our goal is to create changes so profound customers wouldnt dream of going back to their old ways of keeping their books, doing their taxes or managing their personal finances. Intuit is a leading provider of small business, tax preparation and personal finance software products and services that simplify complex financial tasks for small businesses, consumers and accounting professionals. Our principal products and services include: small business accounting and business management solutions, including our QuickBooks® line of products and services as well as our Intuit® line of industry-specific business management solutions; TurboTax® consumer tax products and services; ProSeries® and Lacerte® professional tax products and services; and Quicken® personal finance products and services. Details about our products and services are provided in Products and Services, below.
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Company Growth Strategy
Intuit has a tradition of successful customer-driven innovation, using technology to address complex customer problems and develop solutions to make things easier. By applying strategic and operational rigor to this foundation, we believe we can accelerate our customer-driven innovation, and deliver stronger revenue and profit growth.
There are three key fundamentals that support our growth strategy:
| | We deliberately choose to be in businesses where we have, or we believe we can achieve, the strategic and durable advantage to produce long-term profitable growth. | |
| | Within these businesses, we create new growth by identifying large, underserved portions of the market, and delivering customer-driven, innovative solutions to address these unmet customer needs. | |
| | By applying strategic and operational rigor, we can execute well to capitalize on these multiple, large growth opportunities. |
By being both disciplined and innovative, we can improve execution and deliver more for example, by tightening development cycles, we can introduce more products faster. The new products drive stronger growth and give customers a broader range of offerings to best meet their needs.
Right for Me Product Strategy
We strive to deliver a range of products and services that can provide a compelling, Right for Me customer proposition for a wide range of customers with differing needs. Specifically, in September 2001, we announced our Right for My Business strategy to better address the small business management market opportunity and to expand our target customer segment to include larger small businesses with up to 250 employees. Our goal is to offer the right solution for each small business in our targeted markets. We have two primary methods of providing products and services that address the varying needs of different types of small businesses: solutions that are expansions of, or that integrate with, our QuickBooks line of small business products; and standalone business management solutions that operate independently of our current QuickBooks products. Here are the key elements of our Right for My Business strategy:
| | Weve been expanding our QuickBooks product line to offer industry-specific versions of QuickBooks such as QuickBooks Premier: Accountant Edition for accountants, and QuickBooks Point of Sale products for retail businesses. | |
| | Were also offering versions of QuickBooks designed for bigger, more complex businesses including QuickBooks Premier for small businesses needing more advanced accounting functionality, and QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions Business Management Software for businesses with up to 250 employees. | |
| | We are continuously expanding the Intuit Developer Network. This initiative encourages third-party software developers to develop applications that exchange data with QuickBooks by giving them limited access to application programming interfaces for certain of our QuickBooks products. At the end of fiscal 2002, there were about 120 applications available for QuickBooks. These applications allow our QuickBooks customers to derive even more value from their QuickBooks software. | |
| | We offer business solutions that go beyond accounting software to address a wider range of business management challenges that small businesses face. For example, we offer a broad range of payroll services and financial supplies, as well as software solutions that help businesses manage their information technology resources and assets. | |
| | We provide industry-specific business management solutions to meet the specialized requirements of small businesses in selected vertical industries, including the construction industry; nonprofit |
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| organizations, universities and government agencies; commercial and residential property managers; and wholesale durable goods distributors. |
Our Right for Me strategy is also reshaping our tax and personal finance businesses. In fiscal 2002, we took the first steps in a multi-year implementation of our Right for Me strategy in these areas, when we launched a higher-end consumer tax product, TurboTax Premier, to address the unique needs of investors and rental property owners. The implementation of this strategy is continuing in fiscal 2003, starting with the August 2002 launch of Quicken Premier, which offers more robust investment and tax planning tools. In September 2002, we announced plans to provide three new versions of TurboTax in fiscal 2003 TurboTax Retirement Planning Edition, TurboTax Investor Edition, and TurboTax en Español.
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
Intuit offers products and services in seven business segments: Small Business, Employer Services, Consumer Tax, Professional Accounting Solutions, Personal Finance, Global Business and Small Business Verticals and Other. Our primary products and services are described below. In fiscal 2002 we combined the operations of our Small Business and Personal Finance divisions to leverage their business and operational synergies, but we continue to view the results of the businesses separately for reporting purposes. For financial information about these businesses, see Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and Note 14 of the financial statements. For a description of principal risks associated with these businesses, see Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Risks that Could Affect Future Results. We sold our Quicken Loans mortgage business in July 2002. We accounted for Quicken Loans as a discontinued operation and, as a result, it is not discussed below. See Note 11 of the financial statements.
Small Business
QuickBooks Software and Services. Our QuickBooks product line brings extensive bookkeeping capabilities, as well as business management tools, to small business users in an easy-to-use design that does not require customers to be familiar with debit/credit accounting. We offer a range of products to suit the needs of different types of small businesses, including QuickBooks Basic, which provides accounting functionality suitable for smaller, less complex businesses; QuickBooks Pro, which supports up to five multiple simultaneous users; QuickBooks Premier, for small businesses needing more advanced accounting functionality; QuickBooks Premier: Accountant Edition, customized for accounting professionals with multiple QuickBooks clients; QuickBooks Point of Sale, which is designed for retail businesses; and QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions Business Management Software, for businesses with up to 250 employees. As part of our Right for My Business strategy, we expect to launch a number of additional versions of QuickBooks during fiscal 2003 and beyond. Our more recent QuickBooks products offer a variety of optional business management services for an additional fee, including QuickBooks Online Billing, which allows small businesses to bill and receive customer payments electronically; QuickBooks Merchant Account Service, which enables small businesses to accept credit card payments from their customers; and QuickBooks Credit Check Services, which gives small businesses access to credit reports designed specifically for small businesses. We also offer a variety of technical support plans to our QuickBooks customers through QuickBooks Service Solutions. Customers have a choice of different support plans at different prices depending on the response time they require.
Financial Supplies. We offer a range of financial supplies, such as paper checks, envelopes, invoices, deposit slips, stationery, business cards and holiday greeting cards, designed for small businesses and individuals. We also offer tax forms, tax return presentation folders and other similar items for professional tax preparers. Our customers can personalize many products to incorporate their logos and use a variety of color, font and design options.
Information Technology Management Solutions. In September 2002 we completed the acquisition of Blue Ocean Software, Inc., a leading provider of software solutions that help businesses manage their information technology resources and assets. Functionality includes PC inventory management, incident
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Employer Services
Our Employer Services business provides solutions to help small business owners better manage key tasks relating to their employees. Our current Employer Services offerings consist primarily of payroll solutions, and we currently provide three different payroll offerings. Our QuickBooks Do-It-Yourself Payroll (formerly Basic Payroll) consists of current payroll tax tables that are provided on a subscription basis to small businesses that need current tables to prepare their own payrolls. Our QuickBooks Assisted Payroll Service (formerly Deluxe Payroll) is an online payroll service that handles the back-end aspects of payroll processing, including tax payments and filings. It is integrated with QuickBooks, which minimizes customer data entry. Our Intuit Payroll Services Complete Payroll provides traditional, full service payroll processing, tax payment and check delivery services. It encompasses our former Premier Payroll Service, as well as CBS Payroll, which we acquired in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2002. The acquisition of CBS Payroll significantly enhances our ability to expand and acquire customers for our full-service payroll offering. In September 2002, we announced plans to provide integration between our Complete Payroll service and QuickBooks, which we believe will offer a more attractive full-service payroll solution for QuickBooks customers.
Consumer Tax
Desktop Consumer Tax Software. Our TurboTax desktop products are designed to enable individuals and small business owners to prepare their own federal and state personal and business income tax returns easily, quickly and accurately. Our consumer tax products are designed to be easy to use, yet sophisticated enough for complicated tax returns. We offer basic and deluxe versions of the product, and in fiscal 2002, we introduced TurboTax Premier, which addresses the unique tax needs of investors and rental property owners. Our innovative Instant Data Entry feature enables taxpayers to import data directly into their tax returns from Form W-2s (wages), Form 1098s (mortgage interest) and Form 1099s (interest, dividends and stock transactions) from more than 45 participating financial institutions and payroll service companies. This feature saves significant time and increases accuracy.
Web-Based Consumer Tax Preparation and Electronic Filing Services. TurboTax for the Web is an interactive tax preparation service that enables individual taxpayers to prepare their federal and state income tax returns entirely online. This service allows us to reach a different segment of consumer tax customers than those who use our desktop products; a significant number of TurboTax for the Web customers in fiscal 2000 through fiscal 2002 had not used tax preparation software before. We offer basic, deluxe and premium versions of the service that have functionality similar to that of our desktop products. Through our electronic filing center, customers of our desktop and Web-based tax preparation software can electronically file their federal tax returns, as well as state returns in all states that support electronic filing. During fiscal 2002, we were the exclusive provider of online tax preparation services on the Yahoo!® Finance Tax Center, and our online tax services were also offered through the websites of more than 1,100 financial institutions, electronic retailers and other merchants.
Under the Intuit Tax Freedom Project, a philanthropic public service initiative of the Intuit Financial Freedom Foundation, we provide online tax preparation and electronic filing services at no charge to lower-income federal and state tax filers.
Professional Accounting Solutions
Our ProSeries and Lacerte tax preparation products are designed for tax professionals who prepare tax returns for their individual and business clients. Customers can elect to license professional tax products for a flat fee for unlimited annual use or to use them on a pay-per-return basis. ProSeries and Lacerte customers can file their customers tax returns through our electronic filing services. Our other professional accounting solutions include EasyACCT® Professional Accounting Series products, which allow
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Personal Finance
Quicken Software. Our Quicken line of desktop software products helps users organize, understand and manage their personal finances. Quicken allows customers to reconcile bank accounts, record credit card and other transactions, write checks, and track investments, mortgages and other assets and liabilities. Many customers use Quicken products to manage their home-based businesses. We offer basic and deluxe versions of the product, and in August 2002, we introduced our Quicken Premier product, which offers more robust investment and tax planning tools.
Quicken.com and Other Online Services. We provide a range of online services that help consumers manage their financial lives. Quicken.comTM is our primary personal finance Web site. It enables customers to automate financial management tasks and make better financial decisions by giving them software tools, resources and objective information about a variety of personal finance topics, including investing, mortgages, insurance, taxes, banking and retirement, in a single online destination. In September 2002, we launched Quicken Brokerage powered by Siebert, an online and telephone-based securities brokerage service for Quicken and Quicken.com customers made available through an exclusive strategic alliance with Siebert Financial Corp., the holding company for Muriel Siebert & Co. Inc. Other online services we offer include bill payment and online banking services thorough the Quicken desktop product, as well as a Quicken credit card. Quicken and/or Quicken.com customers can also link directly to third-party providers of other services, such as insurance and mortgages. We do not currently charge customers a fee to access most features on Quicken.com, but we receive revenue from financial institutions and other companies that advertise and/or sell their products or services through links from Quicken.com.
Global Business
We have business operations in Canada and Japan, and we also serve markets across Europe, Southeast Asia and other selected locations. We have established third-party relationships with local companies in certain countries to help us better address specific markets. In all international markets except Canada and Europe, we focus primarily on small business products.
Canada and United Kingdom. In Canada, we offer localized versions of QuickBooks and Quicken; the MYOB accounting product line, which we acquired during fiscal 2002; QuickTaxTM consumer tax products; ProFileTM Financial Application Suite professional tax products; and Quicken.caSM, a personal finance Web site with content similar to Quicken.com. In the United Kingdom, we also offer localized versions of QuickBooks and Quicken, as well as the TaxCalcTM consumer tax return product, which we acquired in fiscal 2002.
Japan. The principal product we offer in Japan, is Yayoi®, a small business accounting product that addresses the mid-sized companies segment of the small business market in Japan. Sales of Yayoi products also generate recurring revenue from ongoing support contracts that are sold with the software. During fiscal 2002, we discontinued our Japanese version of QuickBooks.
Other Locations. We offer localized versions of QuickBooks and Quicken products in selected European markets through local distributors and agents. We also offer localized versions of QuickBooks and Quicken products in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and Singapore through a development, marketing and distribution arrangement with Australia-based Reckon Limited.
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Small Business Verticals and Other
As part of our Right For My Business strategy, we have acquired several companies that enable us to provide accounting and business management solutions to customers in selected industries, which we refer to as verticals. These new businesses, which we report as a single business segment, include the following: Intuit Construction Business Solutions (formerly OMware, Inc.), which provides business management solutions for the construction industry; Intuit Public Sector Solutions (formerly American Fundware), which offers accounting and business management software solutions for nonprofit organizations, universities and government agencies; Intuit MRI Real Estate Solutions (formerly Management Reports, Inc.), which provides business management software solutions for commercial and residential property managers; and Intuit Eclipse Distribution Management Solutions (formerly Eclipse, Inc.), which offers business management software for the wholesale durable goods industry.
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Historically, our desktop software products have tended to have a fairly predictable, structured development cycle of about a year, with annual releases. For our small business desktop products, we now supplement annual releases of our core QuickBooks products with ongoing releases of products that address the specialized requirements of selected vertical industries, as well as products for larger or more complex businesses. The development cycles for our service offerings are less predictable and are generally much shorter than for our desktop products. The development of tax preparation software presents a unique challenge because of the demanding development cycle required to incorporate annual tax law and tax form changes each year. For a description of other risks and challenges we face relating to our product development, see Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Risks That Could Affect Future Results.
During the past few years, we have devoted significant resources to developing new products and services, including QuickBooks Premier, QuickBooks Premier: Accountant Edition, QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions Business Management Software, the Intuit Developer Network and the Instant Data Entry feature of our TurboTax products and services. We supplement our internal development efforts by acquiring strategically important products and technology from third parties, or establishing other relationships that enable us to expand our business more rapidly. For example, during fiscal 2002, we acquired four companies that provide small business management products in vertical industries, we worked closely with a third party technology provider to develop our QuickBooks Point of Sale software, and we formed an exclusive strategic alliance with Siebert Financial Corp. to offer brokerage services to consumers.
We also devote resources to improving our existing products and services. For our desktop software products, our recent development efforts have focused on creating an easier end-to-end customer experience, as well as adding new features. We also incorporate technology in our products and services to address customer concerns about privacy and security while minimizing the impact on performance and ease of use. In addition, we have focused in recent years on developing technology that helps reduce unlicensed use of some of our tax products. Our fiscal 2002 professional tax products, as well as consumer tax products in Canada, contained product activation technology that restricted sharing of the products. In September 2002, we announced that federal tax versions of TurboTax desktop products for Windows for the 2002 tax season will include product activation technology that will prevent a customer from using a single copy of TurboTax to print or e-file a tax return from more than one personal computer.
During the past few years, we have made a number of improvements to our product development process. We now team technical support and product development personnel, so that we can anticipate feature usability and support issues early in the development process. By enhancing the design process for our QuickBooks 2002 products, we improved product quality and significantly lowered our customer service and technical support call volume. We have made other changes that have allowed us to shorten the development cycle, which is enabling us to launch new products more quickly.
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Our research and development expenses were $165.9 million in fiscal 2000, $203.7 million in fiscal 2001 and $203.5 million in fiscal 2002. During fiscal 2002, we significantly increased research and development spending in some of our highest-growth businesses small business, consumer tax and professional accounting solutions but these increases were offset by significant decreases in spending in less strategic areas and discontinued businesses. Over the next few years, we expect that our research and development efforts will be focused on developing new products and services to address customer needs in our more broadly defined market segments and adding complementary products and services to drive additional, recurring revenue from our core products, such as additional products and services for our small business customers. We strive to maintain a balance between relatively low-risk investments that address existing customer needs, and investments in more innovative but higher-risk projects with potentially greater returns.
MARKETING, SALES AND DISTRIBUTION
Markets
Recently, we have expanded both the markets that we serve, as well as the products and services that we offer in our target markets. Historically, our target markets were individuals and small businesses with less than 20 employees. We continue to serve those markets with products and services such as QuickBooks, TurboTax and Quicken. In addition to these markets, we are now targeting small businesses with up to 250 employees. We are addressing this new customer segment with a number of new products and services under the umbrella of our Right for My Business strategy. We are introducing industry-specific solutions to meet the specialized requirements of small businesses in selected vertical industries by developing industry-specific version of QuickBooks, and acquiring companies that offer business management solutions to small businesses in selected vertical markets. In addition, we recently introduced new versions of QuickBooks for companies that, due to their larger size or complexity, have more demanding accounting needs. We have also introduced business solutions that go beyond accounting software to address a wider range of business management challenges that small businesses face. We expect to continue expanding in these directions over the next several years. See Business Overview Right for Me Product Strategy and Products and Services, above, for more details about our product and service offerings.
Many of the markets in which we compete are characterized by rapidly changing customer demands, continuous technological changes and improvements, shifting industry standards and frequent new product introductions by competitors. Market and industry changes can quickly render existing products and services obsolete, so our success depends on our ability to respond rapidly to these changes with new or enhanced products and services, new business models, alternative distribution methods, different competitive strategies and other changes to the way we do business.
Distribution Channels
Over the past year we have been expanding our distribution channels to accommodate the recent expansion of both the markets we serve and the range of products and services we offer.
Direct Sales Channel. For our core desktop software products (QuickBooks, TurboTax and Quicken), we use various direct sales campaigns, including mail and telephone solicitations, direct-response newspaper and magazine advertising, and television and radio advertising, to generate software orders, stimulate retail demand and generally maintain and increase consumer awareness of our products. Direct marketing campaigns are one of the most effective ways to encourage existing customers to purchase additional products and services, including software upgrades. Direct sales made up a significant portion of our total desktop software revenue in fiscal 2002, as they often generate significantly higher revenue per unit than retail sales, particularly for our small business and tax products.
Many of our direct customers choose to order and/or take delivery of products electronically through our Web sites. Electronic ordering and delivery are generally more convenient for customers and more cost-efficient for Intuit. Electronic delivery has been a particularly effective method of distribution for our
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Our direct sales efforts have historically focused on generating sales of relatively inexpensive, off-the-shelf products to existing customers. Our service offerings, as well as our more sophisticated, higher-priced software products, require a more robust approach to direct sales than desktop software. As we have expanded our services offerings and introduced more high-end software products and business management solutions over the past year, we have been enhancing our direct sales capabilities to support revenue growth in these new areas, as well as in our core desktop software. We are investing in technology to consolidate and improve our management of customer contact data and order management tools across business divisions. Process excellence initiatives in fiscal 2002 have resulted in improvements in lead generation and order management, as well as more consultative selling by our customer service personnel. In addition, we have expanded our direct sales staff and broadened its role to include more extensive and personalized contact with existing and potential customers. In particular, some of the new products and services we now offer as a result of recent acquisitions are sold primarily through direct field sales organizations. As a result of all of these efforts, we expect that direct sales will become an increasingly important source of revenue over the next few years.
Retail Distribution Channel. We market our QuickBooks, TurboTax and Quicken desktop software in North America primarily through traditional retail software outlets, computer superstores, office supply superstores, warehouse clubs and general mass merchandisers. In international markets, we also rely on distributors, value-added resellers and other third parties, who sell products into the retail channel. In fiscal 2002 we began distributing our TurboTax products through Safeway Inc., one of the largest food and drug retailers in North America. This enabled us to reach a significant number of new customers. We expect to continue expanding our retail distribution locations to reach more new customers in fiscal 2003.
We continue to benefit from strong relationships with a number of major retailers, which allows us to minimize our dependency on any specific retailer. We are reducing our dependency on distributors as we ship more of our products directly to individual retail locations. See Manufacturing and Distribution. However, the recent slowdown in consumer demand for software has resulted in software becoming a less important category for retailers. As a result of this trend, we have faced challenges in ensuring good product placement within retail stores. See Competition and Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Risks That Could Affect Future Results.
We ship more products to our retailers than we expect them to sell in order to reduce the risk that they will run out of products. This is particularly true for our tax products. As a result, we often experience significant levels of product returns from the retail channel after the end of the tax season during the fourth quarter as well as the first quarter of the following fiscal year. See Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Risks That Could Affect Future Results.
As we execute on our Right for My Business strategy, we are starting to offer more complex, higher-priced software products than our traditional retail software products. It is not yet clear whether the retail channel will be an effective distribution channel for some of these higher-end offerings.
OEM Channel. We have existing relationships with a number of personal computer original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs, including Dell Computer Corporation, Apple Computer Inc. and Hewlett-Packard, that enable us to generate sales of our core desktop software products in two ways. First, certain OEMs pre-bundle new-user versions of certain desktop software products on the computer systems that the OEMs sell to their customers. Although these pre-bundled OEM sales sometimes generate little revenue or initial profit for Intuit (due to the low prices that the OEMs may pay for the products and slow sales in their own businesses), they are a good source of new customers and future revenues. The second source of revenue from the OEM channel is after-market programs, in which customers who are purchasing computers can select and purchase software products at the same time.
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Third-Party Value-Added Distribution Arrangements. As we execute on our Right for My Business strategy, we are supplementing our direct sales capabilities and our retail distribution relationships with selected third-party distribution arrangements. We believe these relationships will enhance the growth opportunities for our expanded and higher-end product and service offerings by allowing us to benefit from the value-added marketing and sales expertise of these third parties. We currently have arrangements with third parties who have specialized expertise in marketing, selling and providing post-sale implementation services for the vertical business management solutions offered by our Construction Business Solutions and Public Sector Solutions businesses, which we acquired during fiscal 2002. During fiscal 2003 and beyond, we expect to expand our network of third-party relationships, to help increase revenue for some of our existing higher-end product and service offerings, as well as for additional products and service we anticipate offering as we execute our Right for My Business strategy.
COMPETITION
Overview
We face intense competition in almost all of our business areas, both domestically and globally. Some of our existing competitors have significantly greater financial, technical and marketing resources than we do. As we implement our Right For My Business strategy we face increased competitive threats from larger companies in bigger markets than we have historically faced. In addition, the competitive landscape can shift rapidly as new companies enter markets in which we compete. See Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Risks That Could Affect Future Results.
For our TurboTax, Quicken and lower-end QuickBooks desktop software, we believe the most important competitive factors are product features, ease of use, size of the installed customer base, brand name recognition, price, product and support quality and access to distribution channels. We believe we compete effectively on most of these factors, as our three principal desktop software products are the leading products in the retail sales channel for their respective categories. For most of our products and services other than desktop software, we believe the most important competitive factors are features and ease of use, brand name recognition, speed in getting new products and services to market, and the ability to distribute them effectively (through online methods or through retailers, third party resellers and direct distribution). For our service offerings, service reliability and scalability of operations are also important factors. We believe we compete effectively on these factors.
Our most obvious competition comes from other companies that offer technology solutions similar to ours. These competitors are described below. However, for many of our products and services, the primary competitive alternatives for customers are manual tools and processes, or general purpose software. A significant portion of our new customers are people who have used pencil and paper or software such as word processors and spreadsheets, rather than competitors software and services, to perform financial tasks. For example: many taxpayers prepared their tax returns manually; a large number of small businesses used spreadsheets to keep their book and they processed their payroll using spreadsheets and manually-written checks; and most of our personal finance customers tracked their finances with spreadsheets, manually or not at all before purchasing Quicken.
Small Business, Employer Services and Small Business Verticals
Competitors for our small business accounting and business management offerings include companies such as Peachtree Software (which is owned by The Sage Group PLC), MYOB Group, Microsoft Corp. and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants CPA2Biz subsidiary. Microsoft recently acquired a provider of integrated software solutions for small and medium-sized businesses, and Microsoft Great Plains recently acquired QuickSell retail point-of-sale applications. Another factor in the competitive environment is the increasing number of alliances between professional tax preparers and providers of small business software and services that aim to capitalize on accountant-facilitated sales of small business products and services to their clients. In addition to established competitors, other potential competitors
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Our financial supplies business competes with a number of business forms companies, including New England Business Service and Deluxe Business Systems, as well as with printing services offered by franchises such as Kinkos and large office supply retailers such as Office Depot and Staples. Other competitors include direct mail check printers, banks and a number of smaller-scale Internet-based printing companies. In addition, our QuickBooks products include some features (such as customizable invoicing) that compete with our supplies products. Online bill payment services and online payroll services with direct deposit capabilities also offer competitive alternatives to printed checks. Significant competitive factors for the supplies business include ordering convenience, methods of reaching customers, product quality, speed of delivery and price. We believe our convenient access to our large QuickBooks and Quicken customer bases is a significant competitive advantage for us.
Our payroll services compete directly with traditional payroll service providers as well as Web-based service providers. Significant competitive factors include distribution channels, a highly fragmented market including financial institutions that are developing or promoting their own payroll services, and offerings by non-traditional competitors such as Microsofts bCentral. We face direct competition in our Intuit Payroll Services Complete Payroll business from traditional payroll services offered by a number of companies, including Paychex and ADP. Our QuickBooks Assisted Payroll service competes directly with companies offering Web-based payroll services, and indirectly with companies offering other payroll solutions. Peachtree and others also offer tax table subscription services that compete directly with our QuickBooks Do-it-Yourself Payroll offering.
Consumer Tax
Competition in the consumer tax preparation market is intense. Our major domestic competitor for both desktop and Web-based consumer tax software continues to be H&R Block, the makers of TaxCut software. However, Microsoft offered a competitive product for one season (our fiscal 2000), and new competitors may enter these markets in the future. We also compete for customers with professional tax preparers, particularly those with franchise operations. Web-based tax preparation is still a relatively new service, and we expect the competitive landscape to evolve as more competitors enter the market and others consolidate. We also face potential competitive challenges from electronic tax preparation and filing services offered by state governments. See Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Risks That Could Affect Future Results.
Professional Accounting Solutions
The professional tax preparation software marketplace has many competitors. Our largest competitors in the U.S. are CCH Incorporated, with its ProSystem fx product line, and RIA, with its Creative Solutions and GoSystem offerings. In the past, the professional tax market has been highly fragmented, but it has experienced some consolidation in recent years.
Personal Finance
In desktop personal finance software, the Microsoft Money product is our primary domestic competition. We also face competition from Web-based personal finance tracking and management tools that are available at no cost to consumers. There are many competitors for our other personal finance products and services. For example, our Quicken.com site competes for traffic, and advertising and sponsorship sales, with online financial publishers, the financial areas on numerous online services such as Yahoo! and financially-oriented Web sites such as Microsofts Money Central. Our online brokerage offering through Siebert Financial Corp. competes with numerous other brokerage services. However, we believe that the ability of Quicken customers to integrate brokerage transaction data into their Quicken records gives us a
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Global Business
In Canada, we face competition from a number of companies in the small business arena, including Computer Associates International, Inc. The primary competitor in Canada for our consumer tax business is Taxamatic, Inc., the makers of TAXWIZ, and the primary competitor for our professional tax business is CCH Canadian Limited. In Japan, our primary competitors in the small business accounting arena are OBC, PCA and Sorimachi. In Europe, we face competition from The Sage Group PLC (based in the United Kingdom), Bhuldata (Wiso), Microsoft and Microsoft Great Plains in the small business market, as well as competition from Web-based accounting products. Our primary global competitor in the personal finance arena is Microsoft.
CUSTOMER SERVICE AND TECHNICAL SUPPORT
We provide customer service and technical support by telephone, online chat, fax, e-mail, and our customer service and technical support Web sites. We have full-time customer service and technical support staffs, which we occasionally supplement with seasonal employees and outsourcing during periods of peak call volumes, such as during the tax return filing season, or following a major product launch.
During the past few years, we have focused on developing support capabilities that can supplement, or in some situations replace, telephone service and support. For example, customers can use our Web sites to find answers to commonly asked questions, check on the status of a product order and receive bug fixes electronically. Alternative service and support methods are less expensive for us and are often more efficient and effective for customers as well. We have completed a number of Six Sigma/ Process Excellence projects in our customer service and technical support operations to improve our call capacity forecasting, develop more flexible approaches to staffing and reduce support call volumes and handling times. We may also consider outsourcing a greater portion of our customer service and technical support operations. We believe these projects are critical to our ongoing efforts to provide better service to customers at the same or lower cost.
We generally charge customers for technical support, but we do not charge for product defect issues or self-help support through our technical support Web sites. Support alternatives and fees vary widely by product, from self-help to chat, to phone support, to onsite installation. Customers generally have a choice of different support alternatives at different prices depending on the response time they require.
Despite our efforts to adequately staff and equip our customer service and technical support operations, we cannot always respond promptly to customer requests for assistance. When we experience customer service and support problems, they can adversely affect customer relationships and our financial results. Our Right For My Business strategy presents additional technical support challenges as we increase the number and complexity of the products we offer. In addition, we expect most of our growth over the next several years to come from our small business and tax products, which typically require more live technical support than personal finance products. See Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Risks That Could Affect Future Results.
MANUFACTURING AND DISTRIBUTION
Desktop Software
The major steps involved in manufacturing desktop software are duplicating CDs and floppy disks, printing boxes and related materials, and assembling and shipping the final products. We have a manufacturing agreement with Modus Media International, Inc. under which Modus provides substantially all outsourced manufacturing related to our retail and direct launches of QuickBooks, TurboTax and Quicken, as well as
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We have multiple sources for all of our raw materials and availability has not been a problem for us in the past. Over the past few years we have taken steps to streamline our packaging and reduce our inventory and scrap costs, to generate greater profitability in our core desktop software businesses.
Our retail product launches have become operationally more complex over the past few years. We have evolved from shipping to a few hundred distribution centers (with distributors delivering products to individual retail locations) to a direct to storefront model in which we ship products directly to almost 10,000 individual retail locations. This allows us to be more responsive to the needs of our retail accounts. We have an agreement with Ingram Micro Logistics under which Ingram handles all logistics, fulfillment and similar functions for our retail sales. During the past year we have focused on better operational rigor at various points in our supply chain. As a result, we have significantly increased our on-time shipments, and significantly reduced our aggregate channel inventory levels. We have also reduced our dependency on distributors or on any individual retail account. One distributor, Ingram Micro Inc., accounted for 10% of total net revenue in fiscal 2000. No retailer accounted for 10% or more of our total net revenue during the past three fiscal years, and no distributor met this threshold in fiscal 2001 or 2002.
We believe that using these three vendors (Modus Media, Sony and Ingram Micro Logistics) to handle essentially all manufacturing and distribution, respectively, for our three primary retail product launches improves the efficiency and reliability of our product launches, and enables us to move more quickly to the direct-to-storefront model preferred by many of our retailers. It also allows us to better manage inventory levels. However, exclusive reliance on one vendor for specific functions can have severe negative consequences on our business, revenue and operating results if a vendor fails to perform for any reason. Accordingly, we continue to evaluate other vendors in order to increase efficiencies and facilitate contingency planning. See Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Risks That Could Affect Future Results.
Prior to major product releases, we tend to have significant levels of backlog, but at other times backlog is minimal and we normally ship products within a few days of receiving an order. Because of this fluctuation in backlog, we believe that backlog is not a reliable predictor of our future desktop software sales.
Internet-based Products and Services
Intuits data centers house most of the systems, networks and databases required to operate and deliver our Internet-based products and services, such as TurboTax for the Web, electronic tax filing, QuickBooks Assisted Payroll and Quicken.com. Through our data centers, we connect customers to products and services, and we store the vast amount of data that represents the content on our Web sites. Our data centers consist of approximately 2,200 servers and 400 databases located primarily in three locations. In an effort to reduce unavailability, or down time for our Internet-based products and services, we generally follow industry-standard practices for creating a fault-tolerant environment, but we do not have complete redundancy. Despite our efforts to maintain continuous and reliable server operations, like all providers of Internet-based products and services, we occasionally experience unplanned outages or technical difficulties. See Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Risks That Could Affect Future Results.
PRIVACY AND SECURITY OF CUSTOMER INFORMATION
Customers are concerned about the privacy and security of information they provide to product and services providers. This concern applies to information they provide in connection with Internet-based products and services, as well as information they provide through more traditional channels, such as
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We have established guidelines and practices to help ensure that customers are aware of, and can control, how we use information about them. All publicly-accessible, Intuit-owned and operated Web sites at which customer data is collected (including Quicken.com, QuickBooks.com and TurboTax.com) have been certified by TRUSTe, an independent, non-profit privacy organization that operates a Web site certification program to alleviate users concerns about online privacy. Each of our Web sites, as well as our software products, has a privacy statement providing notice to customers of our privacy practices, as well as providing them the opportunity to furnish instructions with respect to use of their data.
To address security concerns, we use industry-standard security safeguards to help protect the information customers give to us from loss, misuse and unauthorized alteration. Whenever customers transmit sensitive information, such as a credit card number or tax return data, to us through our Web site, we provide them access to our servers that allow encryption of the information as it is transmitted to us. We work to protect personally identifiable information stored on the Web sites servers from unauthorized access using commercially available computer security products, such as firewalls, as well as internally developed security procedures and practices.
We believe privacy and security issues pose a significant risk to Intuit and other companies, especially companies doing business over the Internet. Although we have made significant efforts to address customer concerns through our business practices, during the past few years we have faced lawsuits and negative publicity relating to privacy issues. Our response to these allegations has been that we do not share any personally identifiable information except as disclosed in our privacy policies. A major breach of customer privacy or security, even by another company, could have serious consequences for our businesses. See Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Risks That Could Affect Future Results and Legal Proceedings.
GOVERNMENT REGULATION
We offer several products and services that are subject to special regulatory requirements. For example, the brokerage-related services that Intuit offers through Quicken Brokerage powered by Siebert are provided in part by an Intuit subsidiary that is registered as a securities broker and is subject to certain federal and state broker-dealer regulations. In addition, some of the investment-related features in our products and services are offered by an Intuit subsidiary that is registered as an investment adviser with the SEC and is subject to some state regulatory laws as well. As we expand the depth and breadth of our small business offerings, we may become subject to additional government regulation, particularly in the areas of retirement planning and other employer services. We continually analyze new business opportunities, and new businesses that we pursue may require additional costs for regulatory compliance.
Current government regulation poses a number of risks to us, including potential liability to customers and/or penalties and sanctions by government regulators. Future regulation could hamper the growth of our businesses. See Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Risks That Could Affect Future Results.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
We rely on a combination of copyright, patent, trademark and trade secret laws, and employee and third-party nondisclosure and license agreements to protect our software products and other proprietary technology. While our proprietary technology is important, we believe our success depends more heavily on
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We consider our principal trademarks (including Intuit, QuickBooks, TurboTax and Quicken) to be important assets and have registered these and other trademarks and service marks in the U.S. and many foreign countries. The initial duration of trademark registrations varies from country to country and is 10 years in the U.S. Most registrations can be renewed perpetually at 10-year intervals.
We face a number of risks relating to our intellectual property, including persistent unauthorized use, and unauthorized copying or piracy, of our desktop software products. Although we have recently begun to incorporate technology in certain desktop software products to reduce unauthorized use, we expect piracy to be a persistent problem. We also face the risk of third parties claiming that our products or services infringe their intellectual property rights, and we face risks to the value of our brands when we grant trademark licenses to third parties. See Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Risks That Could Affect Future Results.
EMPLOYEES
As of August 31, 2002, we had approximately 6,500 employees, located primarily in the United States, Canada, Japan and the United Kingdom. We believe our future success and growth will depend on our ability to attract and retain qualified employees in all areas of our business. We do not currently have any collective bargaining agreements with our employees, and we believe employee relations are generally good. Although we have employment-related agreements with a number of key employees, these agreements do not guarantee continued service. We believe we offer competitive compensation and a good working environment. We were selected as one of Fortune magazines 100 Best Companies to Work For in April 2002. However, we face intense competition for qualified employees, and we expect to face continuing challenges in recruiting and retention.
ITEM 2
Our principal offices and corporate headquarters are located in Mountain View, California. Our Mountain View facilities consist of approximately 500,000 square feet under leases that have expiration dates ranging from 2003 to 2010. We maintain a number of leased facilities in San Diego, California, consisting of approximately 385,000 square feet. We use these facilities for general office space, a data center and a manufacturing and distribution center. The San Diego leases have expiration dates ranging from 2003 through 2007. We lease approximately 140,000 square feet in Tucson, Arizona, where our primary customer call center is located, under a lease that expires in 2009. In Plano, Texas we lease approximately 165,000 square feet of space under a lease that expires in 2011, with two five-year renewal options. Our Professional Accounting Services group is headquartered in Plano, and we also have a data center there. In Reno, Nevada, the headquarters for our Employer Services business, we lease approximately 140,000 square feet under leases that have expiration dates ranging from 2002 to 2009. Our four Small Business Verticals are headquartered in Santa Rosa, California; Denver, Colorado; Shelton, Connecticut; and Beachwood, Ohio. We also lease or own facilities in a number of other domestic locations, including Waltham, Massachusetts; Fort Worth, Texas; New York, New York; and Washington, D.C. We also lease or own facilities in Canada, Japan and the United Kingdom. We believe our facilities are adequate for our current and near-term needs, and that we will be able to locate additional facilities as needed. See Note 16 of the financial statements for more information about our lease commitments.
ITEM 3
On March 3, 2000, a class action lawsuit, Bruce v. Intuit Inc., was filed in the United States District Court, Central District of California, Eastern Division. Two virtually identical lawsuits were later filed: Rubin v. Intuit Inc., was filed on March 8, 2000 in the United States District Court, Southern District of
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Intuit is subject to other routine legal proceedings, as well as demands, claims and threatened litigation, that arise in the normal course of our business. We currently believe that the ultimate amount of liability, if any, for any pending claims of any type (either alone or combined) will not materially affect our financial position, results of operations or liquidity. However, the ultimate outcome of any litigation is uncertain, and either unfavorable or favorable outcomes could have a material negative impact. Regardless of outcome, litigation can have an adverse impact on Intuit because of defense costs, diversion of management resources and other factors.
ITEM 4
Not applicable.
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ITEM 4A
The following table shows Intuits executive officers and their areas of responsibility as of September 1, 2002. Weve included biographies after the table.
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Stephen M. Bennett
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48 | President, Chief Executive Officer and Director | ||||
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William V. Campbell
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62 | Chairman of the Board of Directors | ||||
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Scott D. Cook
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50 | Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors | ||||
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Lorrie M. Norrington
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42 | Executive Vice President, Small Business and Personal Finance Division | ||||
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Dennis Adsit
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43 | Senior Vice President, Operations | ||||
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Thomas A. Allanson
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44 | Senior Vice President, Consumer Tax Group | ||||
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Richard William Ihrie
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52 | Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer | ||||
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Daniel L. Manack
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44 | Senior Vice President, Professional Accounting Solutions | ||||
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Greg J. Santora
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51 | Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | ||||
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Raymond G. Stern
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41 | Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Strategy | ||||
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Sherry Whiteley
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43 | Senior Vice President, Human Resources | ||||
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Caroline F. Donahue
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41 | Vice President, Sales | ||||
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Linda Fellows
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54 | Vice President, Investor Relations and Treasury | ||||
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Brooks Fisher
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44 | Vice President, Vertical Strategy and Integration and Chief Marketing Officer | ||||
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Jennifer Jones Hall
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40 | Vice President and Chief Information Officer | ||||
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Jeffrey N. Williams
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51 | Vice President, Finance Operations and Corporate Controller | ||||
Mr. Bennett has been President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors since January 2000. Prior to joining Intuit, Mr. Bennett was an Executive Vice President and a member of the board of directors of GE Capital, the financial services subsidiary of General Electric Corporation, from December 1999 to January 2000. From July 1999 to November 1999 he was President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Capital e-Business. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of GE Capital Vendor Financial Services from April 1996 through June 1999. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Finance and Real Estate from the University of Wisconsin.
Mr. Campbell has been a director of Intuit since May 1994. He has served as Chairman of the Board since August 1998 and was Acting Chief Executive Officer from September 1999 until January 2000. He also served as Intuits President and Chief Executive Officer from April 1994 through July 1998. Mr. Campbell also serves on the board of directors of SanDisk Corporation (a computer storage devices company), Apple Computer, Inc. and Loudcloud, Inc. (a provider of Internet infrastructure services). Mr. Campbell holds both a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Masters degree from Columbia University.
Mr. Cook, a founder of Intuit, has been a director of Intuit since March 1984 and is currently Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board. He served as Intuits Chairman of the Board from February 1993 through July 1998. From April 1984 to April 1994, he also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Intuit. Mr. Cook also serves on the board of directors of Amazon.com, Inc., eBay Inc. and The Procter & Gamble Company and is on the board of visitors of the Harvard Business School Foundation. Mr. Cook holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Southern California and a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
Ms. Norrington has been Executive Vice President, Small Business and Personal Finance since January 2002. She joined Intuit in July 2001 as Senior Vice President, Small Business Division. Prior to joining Intuit, Ms. Norrington served as an officer of General Electric Corporation and held a variety of senior
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Mr. Adsit has been Senior Vice President, Operations since August 2002. He served as Vice President, Call Centers and Process Excellence of Intuit from May 2001 to August 2002. Mr. Adsit joined Intuit in July 2000 as Vice President, Process Excellence. Prior to joining Intuit, he was Senior Vice President, Six Sigma Practice Leader, at Rath and Strong, a division of AON Corporation (a risk management company) from April 1999 to June 2000. From June 1995 to April 1999, he also held Principal and Vice President positions in the Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness Practice at Rath and Strong Management Consultants. Mr. Adsit is a member of the Executive Advisory Panel for the Academy of Managements Publication Executive. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Psychology from Bowling Green State University and a Masters and Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the University of Minnesota.
Mr. Allanson has been Senior Vice President, Consumer Tax Group since April 2002. Prior to that he was Senior Vice President, Tax Division from April 2001 until April 2002. He joined Intuit in September 2000 as Vice President of Tax Strategy. Prior to joining Intuit, he was with General Electric Corporation from February 1993 through August 2000, serving as President of GE Capital Colonial Pacific Leasing from October 1998 to August 2000. He was Sales Effectiveness Leader and General Manager from September 1997 to October 1998 and was Marketing Manager, Equipment Business from May 1995 through September 1997. Mr. Allanson holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Auburn University.
Mr. Ihrie has been Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer since joining Intuit in November 2000. He was Acting Chief Information Officer from January 2001 to August 2001. Prior to joining Intuit, Mr. Ihrie served as Senior Vice President of Technology for ADP Claims Solutions Group (an automated information company) from July 1996 to October 2000, and Senior Vice President of Product Development for Dealer Services at ADP from August 1990 to July 1996. Mr. Ihrie holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Mathematics and Management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Mr. Manack has been Senior Vice President, Professional Accounting Solutions since April 2002. Prior to that he was Vice President, Professional Products Group from January 2002 until April 2002. Before joining Intuit, Mr. Manack served as Senior Vice President of E-Markets Group Operations at Peregrine Systems, Inc. (an infrastructure management software company) from May 2001 to January 2002 and Senior Vice President at Peregrine Solutions from June 2000 to May 2001. Prior to the acquisition of Harbinger Corporation by Peregrine Systems, Inc. in June 2000, Mr. Manack was Executive Vice President of Operations at Harbinger Corporation from January 2000 to June 2000, Senior Vice President Market Executive of New Clients from February 1999 to January 2000, Senior Vice President of World Professional Services from February 1998 to February 1999 and Vice President & General Manager of Professional Services and Outsourcing Practice from January 1997 to February 1998. Mr. Manack holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from West Virginia University and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Dallas.
Mr. Santora has been Senior Vice President since March 1999 and Chief Financial Officer since July 1997. He served as Vice President of Finance from November 1996 to March 1999. He joined Intuit as Corporate Controller in January 1996. Mr. Santora, who is a certified public accountant, holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Illinois and a Masters in Business Administration from San Jose State University. In August 2002, Mr. Santora announced his plans to retire from Intuit at the end of calendar 2002.
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Mr. Stern has been Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Strategy since December 2000. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Marketing from March 2000 to December 2000 and he was Senior Vice President, Strategy, Corporate Development and Administration from March 1999 until March 2000. He joined Intuit in January 1998 as Senior Vice President of Strategy, Finance and Administration. Prior to joining Intuit, Mr. Stern spent over ten years with The Boston Consulting Group (a business consulting firm), where he was the partner responsible for the firms West Coast high technology practice from May 1994 to December 1997. Mr. Stern holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
Ms. Whiteley has been Senior Vice President, Human Resources since January 2002. She joined Intuit in July 2000 as Vice President, Human Resources. Prior to joining Intuit, she served in several human resources positions with Silicon Graphics, Inc. (a data management company) from 1992 to July 2000, including HR Strategy from 1994 to 1996, Executive Coaching and Development, Leadership Development and Technical Education from 1996 to 1998 and Executive Recruiting from 1998 to July 2000. Ms. Whiteley holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Santa Clara University.
Ms. Donahue has been Vice President, Sales since September 1997. She joined Intuit as Director of Sales in May 1995. Prior to joining Intuit, Ms. Donahue served as Director of Sales at Knowledge Adventure (an educational software company) and she worked in various sales and channel management positions at Apple Computer and Next, Inc. Ms. Donahue holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Northwestern University.
Ms. Fellows has been Vice President, Investor Relations and Treasury since January 2000. She joined Intuit as Corporate Treasurer and Director of Investor Relations in May 1997. Prior to that, Ms. Fellows served as Treasurer and Director of Investor Relations of Bay Networks, Inc. (a communication services company) from October 1990 to April 1997. Ms. Fellows holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University and a Masters in Business Administration from Santa Clara University.
Mr. Fisher has been Vice President, Vertical Strategy and Integration; and Chief Marketing Officer since May 2002. He was Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer from June 2001 until May 2002. He joined Intuit in March 1997 as Vice President, Consumer Internet Business. Prior to joining Intuit, Mr. Fisher served as a Vice President at Infoseek Corp. (an Internet search service company) from January 1996 to March 1997. Mr. Fisher holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Williams College.
Ms. Hall has been Chief Information Officer since July 2002 and a Vice President of Intuit since April 1999. She joined Intuit in November 1992. Ms. Hall was at Pacific Bell from February 1985 through November 1992, where she held various positions, including director of electronic messaging. Ms. Hall holds a Bachelor of Science degree from San Francisco State University.
Mr. Williams has been Vice President, Finance Operations and Corporate Controller since joining Intuit in September 2001. Prior to joining Intuit, Mr. Williams was Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Edgewood Creek, Incorporated from September 2000 until March 2001, and served as Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Reasoning, Incorporated (an information technology company) from June 1998 until September 2000. From July 1996 until June 1998, he served as Director of Finance at Remedy Corporation (a service management solutions company). Mr. Williams, who is a certified public accountant, holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Design from San Jose State University and a Masters degree in Business Administration from Santa Clara University. As a result of Intuits recent decision to relocate its Controller position from Mountain View to San Diego, California, Mr. Williams will be leaving Intuit in November 2002 to pursue other opportunities.
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PART II
Market Information for Common Stock
Intuits common stock is quoted on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol INTU. The following table shows the range of high and low sale prices reported on the Nasdaq Stock Market for the periods indicated. On August 30, 2002, the closing price of Intuits common stock was $44.63.
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Fiscal year ended July 31, 2001
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First quarter
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$ | 61.88 | $ | 34.25 | ||||
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Second quarter
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69.31 | 31.06 | ||||||
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Third quarter
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47.38 | 22.63 | ||||||
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40.75 | 29.85 | ||||||