QuickBooks Accounting Software Privacy

The occasional scare stories about Intuit privacy or QuickBooks privacy (QuickBooks Accounting Software Privacy) now make me laugh and cry. The excellent Intuit privacy and QuickBooks privacy policies and Intuit people relate to its revolutionary Mission Statement and Operating Values. Read it in full at http://www.qbswiki.com/ or see these quotes:

• Intuit was founded on strong principles and has always acted on them.
• WOW! Many companies say their most important job is satisfying the customer. We don't. We believe that satisfying the customer is simply the minimum requirement for staying in business. Therefore. we don't seek merely to satisfy our customers; we seek to wow them.
• Integrity Without Compromise. Intuit is built on integrity. In all we do, we maintain the highest standards. never approaching what could be considered questionable behavior. On this. we never compromise. Having integrity means more to us than simply the absence of deception. It means we are completely forthright in all our dealings. We say what needs to be said. not simply what people want to hear.
• Do Right by All Our Customers. Doing right means acting with the best interests of the other party in mind. We commit ourselves not only to meeting expectations, but to exceeding them...
• Afterward: What about results — things like market share, growing our revenue, profits? We barely mention them in our values. Don't we care about results? We do. Market share is a measure of how well we are serving customers...  Do we have to sacrifice our Operating Values to meet financial goals? By no means. Living up to our Operating Values has always required making thoughtful tradeoffs... What's more, if we do our jobs right, it's a chain reaction, not a series of tradeoffs. We get the best people and ideas, develop and energize our people, focus on the quality the customer wants, improve the process relentlessly, deliver higher quality at ever-lower costs, which wows the customer. and when we have done this consistently, higher revenues, higher profits, and greater share-holder value result.

The excellent Inside Intuit book recounts that soon after Intuit began a Fortune reporter called about an article on when companies might bend their rules. Intuit's founder rejected this badly needed publicity by saying he never would compromise integrity. However, this led to a separate article about Intuit.    

                                                                                                                   

Likewise, I long ago had concerns about Intuit privacy and QuickBooks privacy. I criticized QuickBooks Accounting Software Privacy on the web, but sent a link to Rich Walker, an amazing QuickBooks Director I knew. within 2 hours, even though he was obviously very sick and in Japan, he set up an hour-long 8,000-mile conference call between us and the Intuit Privavcy Director and the QuickBooks Accounting Software Privacy Director. I was in Florida and the Intuit Privacy Director and QuickBooks Accounting Software Privacy Director were 500 miles or so apart in California. This was at a time when such calls could easily cost hundreds of dollars.

Everything we spoke about, then and since, showed that the very professional Intuit Privacy and QuickBooks Accounting Software Privacy teams know about all related privacy reports and quickly prove them wrong or find solutions. For example, they quickly changed QuickBooks Accounting Software Privacy for updates not encrypting transfers. They also quickly stopped third party ads on a page needing a password to change web opt-out contact preferences.                                                                           

Most impressive was their reaction to a recent Department of Homeland Security report. The Intuit privacy and QuickBooks privacy teams fixed this potential QuickBooks Accounting Software privacy problem with the online version. They did so six months months before Homeland Security had time to report it. None of the web reports on this said that the update correcting the problem had been out six months before their reports. Many even said we had to update our online software, though this was automatic. I lost a lot of respect for some companies when they would not correct their stories for this.

   

QuickBooks accounting software updates carry less risk of leaked financial information than you have with banks and credit card companies. They use highly secure NSA-style encryption. Some banks and credit card companies occasionally leak customer data. Intuit NEVER has. You have long (almost always) been able to update QuickBooks Accounting Software by downloading updates. Simply Google "QuickBooks update download"  (without the quotes) for the site. It works fine even if you download on one system  and transfer to others with no web access. Only payroll needs a web connection to install. This relates to well-justified anti-piracy concerns by a multi-billion dollar company, with no interest in our trivial personal information. If Intuit privacy or QuickBooks privacy people had such interests they could easily use high quality (accountant filtered) Turbo Tax web information without detection. However, it would mean federal jail time for the fairly well paid Intuit CEO, Directors and employees, plus a big drop in their Intuit stock values. Any Intuit employee also could claim a big reward. Most important, this would violate the primary Intuit Operating Value, Integrity Without Compromise, so there never was any danger.

Computer experts also could easily detect Intuit privacy or QuickBooks accounting software privacy violations if QuickBooks sent extra data over the web during updates. They have long looked for such extra information, but there have been NO report of this. A while ago some thought Google Desktop violated QuickBooks accounting software privacy, but QuickBooks always uses a custom encrypted version of Google Desktop, which they helped develop. This is no surprise, as the companies share a parking lot and venture capitalist. They also share Intuit's Chairman, as he is a top management consultant for 30 big companies, including Google. The venture capitalist says he saved Google and made  it a powerhouse).

You can worry about the privacy and security of your family and friends. However, you never have to worry about Intuit privacy or QuickBooks Accounting Software Privacy. The Intuit privacy and QuickBooks Privacy teams do your worrying for you. They are very well educated and trained worrying expert professionals.                                       

                                                                                          

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