(Source: Associated Press/AP Online)

NEW YORK - The coming fiscal year is going to be just as challenging as the one that Intuit Inc. completed, President and CEO Brad Smith toll investors and Wall Street analysts Thursday.
"Good companies find ways to capitalize in difficult times to strengthen their position," Smith said in a conference call with investors following the release of its fiscal fourth-quarter results. He said the company plans to focus its efforts on growing market share in its various personal finance and business categories.
QUESTION: Historically, a great priority of the company was double-digit, top-line growth for the year. What kind of sensitivity is there to GDP in order to get you there?
RESPONSE: We still fundamentally see this company as growing double digits organically, supplemented with acquisitions.
I think the reality we're dealing with now, the same reality that most companies are, we're in a pretty tough macro economic environment. So when you don't have the new data for starting up at the normal rate, you see the charge volume down in our payments business, you see banks struggling to stay afloat; 77 have failed in the first part this year alone.
And you don't see new tax filings entering the market.
We're able to execute through most of that. We gained share in every single business this year, and we grew customers. But we just aren't able to offset that larger macro economic environment.
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