Most statistics you read online are unsourced, undated, or quietly copied from another blog that made them up. This library is the opposite: a small set of numbers we can each point to a named authority for, stamped with the year they describe, kept honest on purpose.
Each figure carries the verification date recorded on its page · a date moves only when every figure on that page has been re-checked against its named source
What this statistics library is
This library collects the figures we are asked about most — the size of QuickBooks, what bookkeeping pays, how many small businesses the U.S. has — and answers each one only from a named primary authority. We do not publish a statistic unless we can link the source and stamp the year it comes from. That rule is deliberately strict: it means the library is smaller than a typical "50 stats" listicle, but every line in it is one you can verify yourself in a few clicks. The point is not to impress you with volume; it is to give you numbers you can actually cite.
The sources are limited to three kinds of authority. For QuickBooks and Intuit, we use Intuit's own investor and annual (10-K) filings — the numbers the company reports to the SEC and its shareholders. For the bookkeeping and accounting profession, we use the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, which surveys employers directly. For the small-business economy, we use the U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy, which builds its counts from Census Bureau data. Each subject page carries its own verification date, and we check whether an authority has published a newer release before comparing a figure to the release we already cite — the September 2026 round found exactly that, and moved the QuickBooks figures to Intuit’s fiscal 2026 results. A page’s stamp moves only when every figure on it has actually been re-checked.
The three statistics pages
Three subject pages sit beneath this hub, each self-contained and fully sourced. QuickBooks statistics gathers Intuit's reported market figures — company and segment revenue and the growth of the QuickBooks online business — drawn only from Intuit's own filings. Bookkeeping statistics reports what the profession actually looks like in the Bureau of Labor Statistics data: how many bookkeeping and accounting clerks and accountants there are, what they earn, and where employment is projected to head. Small-business accounting statistics sets out how many small businesses the U.S. has and the share of employment, payroll, and output they account for, per the SBA Office of Advocacy.
The library's structure
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The statistics library's three pages and the primary authority behind each: Intuit's investor and SEC filings feed the QuickBooks statistics, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics feeds the bookkeeping statistics, and the SBA Office of Advocacy feeds the small-business statistics — every figure stamped with its source and year inline.
How we source and stamp every figure
Each statistic on these pages is presented in a table that names its source and its year on the same line as the number. A wage figure says which Bureau of Labor Statistics survey month it is from; an Intuit figure names the fiscal year it was reported for; a small-business count names the SBA report it appears in. External source links open to the authority's own page so you can check the figure at its origin, not our retelling of it. This is the same discipline we apply to a client's books: a number that cannot be traced to its source is a number we will not put our name to.
If you want the same honesty applied to your own QuickBooks file, that is what a free review is — a view-only look that reports what your numbers actually say, with nothing invented. And if you would rather understand the concepts behind the figures, the reference docs define the bookkeeping terms these statistics describe.
Ready to see your own numbers checked the same way? Start with a free QuickBooks review, or browse the plain-English reference docs.