>>their business model relies nearly entirely on whether or not they are adopted by owners, and very little on if employees enjoy learning to use the software
Yeah, there's that. Many accounting bosses are not bosses *of firms* (a lot of companies have in-house accounting staff), but OTOH a single QuickBooks-using firm can convince many clients to sign up for QuickBooks.
That explains not just the training programs offered but the *pricing*. The software is given away to the accounting firms themselves, with the cost being merely per *client*: furthermore, client companies get fairly large discounts on said cost if they buy their subscription through an accounting firm.
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I'm taking the QuickBooks Online course because, in the age of remote office work, that seems more likely to come up than the desktop version, and while I *get* why she's doing it it's still disturbing how hard the lecturer tries to spin "living, breathing software" and "stumbling across recently-added features" as a good thing. (My response was to look at how easy it is to back up QBO files, and apparently the main way of doing so is to hire a third party for approximately as much as the QBO subscription itself costs. $20/month probably feels reasonable to someone accustomed to operating at a company scale, I guess.)
(She also threw in an anecdote at one point about how one of the great things about the mobile app is that it allowed her to handle a client's request while she was *too sick to easily make it over to her desktop*, which is absolutely fucking horrifying and further cements my desire to never run a firm and *especially* not a one-person operation. (Although I was already well aware that business ownership is not for me, especially after observing that Meta-Boss is effectively on-call at all times.))
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Yeah, there's that. Many accounting bosses are not bosses *of firms* (a lot of companies have in-house accounting staff), but OTOH a single QuickBooks-using firm can convince many clients to sign up for QuickBooks.
That explains not just the training programs offered but the *pricing*. The software is given away to the accounting firms themselves, with the cost being merely per *client*: furthermore, client companies get fairly large discounts on said cost if they buy their subscription through an accounting firm.
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I'm taking the QuickBooks Online course because, in the age of remote office work, that seems more likely to come up than the desktop version, and while I *get* why she's doing it it's still disturbing how hard the lecturer tries to spin "living, breathing software" and "stumbling across recently-added features" as a good thing. (My response was to look at how easy it is to back up QBO files, and apparently the main way of doing so is to hire a third party for approximately as much as the QBO subscription itself costs. $20/month probably feels reasonable to someone accustomed to operating at a company scale, I guess.)
(She also threw in an anecdote at one point about how one of the great things about the mobile app is that it allowed her to handle a client's request while she was *too sick to easily make it over to her desktop*, which is absolutely fucking horrifying and further cements my desire to never run a firm and *especially* not a one-person operation. (Although I was already well aware that business ownership is not for me, especially after observing that Meta-Boss is effectively on-call at all times.))