Accounting Software Statistics 2026

Serving approximately 93 million consumers, small and mid-market businesses, and accountants worldwide, Intuit’s platform brings the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and human intelligence together to fuel customers’ success.

QuickBooks Online Accounting revenue increased $931 million, or 23%, in fiscal 2026 compared with fiscal 2025 due to the interrelated factors of higher effective prices, customer growth, and mix shift.

Online Ecosystem paying customers, which we define as the sum of all QuickBooks Online paying customers, QuickBooks Time customers, Mailchimp paying customers, and customers who subscribe to standalone services outside of QuickBooks Online, increased 3% as of July 31, 2026 compared with July 31, 2025.

Online Ecosystem average revenue per customer, which we define as total online ecosystem revenue divided by the average number of online paying customers, increased 15% for fiscal 2026 compared with fiscal 2025.

Desktop Ecosystem revenue increased $171 million, or 6%, in fiscal 2026 compared with fiscal 2025.

The Group increased underlying total revenue by 10% to £2,513m (FY24: £2,290m), with all regions contributing to growth.

Sage Business Cloud revenue increased by 13% to £2,083m (FY24: £1,837m), including cloud native revenue growth of 23% to £885m (FY24: £718m).

Sage Intacct, which now represents over 45% of US revenue, grew by 23% to £461m (FY24: £374m), driven by strength across key industry verticals

Subscription penetration increased to 83% (FY24: 82%) driven by growth in subscription revenue of 12% to £2,093m (FY24: £1,876m).

Customers 4,920,000 4,414,000 11%

strong operating results included operating revenue growth of 31% (28% in constant currency (CC)) to $2.8 billion

Average revenue per customer ($) 55.44 45.08 23%

demonstrated by accelerating US growth with 110,000 new customers, including new Melio direct payments customers

UK performance remained strong with revenue growth of 26% and customers up 14%, which included some early flow through Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax.

As of June 30, 2026, approximately 479,300 businesses used our solutions and processed approximately $371.3 billion in Total Payment Volume (TPV) during fiscal 2026.

Most importantly, via the cloud, enterprises have access to relatively more sophisticated end customer software applications, for finances/accounting (58.16%), for planning their processes and resources (enterprise resource planning - ERP) (30.12%) and for managing information about their customers (customer relationship management – CRM) (27.91%).

Compared with 2023, a moderate growth by more than 5 pp was recorded for the use of paid cloud services like accounting or financial applications on the cloud (+6.52 pp) and for the use of office software on the cloud (+5.42 pp).

In 2025, 46.45% of EU enterprises used Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software applications.

In 2025, the percentage of EU enterprises using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software ranged from 41.08% for small enterprises to 88.71% for large enterprises.

In 2025, more than 60% the enterprises in Denmark (66.25%), Belgium (62.45%), and Spain (60.38%) used ERP software to share information between different functional areas.

In 2024, 62% of firms used cloud technology and those with high integration saw 78% revenue growth.

In 2025, 52% of firms expanded cloud-based solutions, and 87% of those with highly integrated systems reported revenue growth.

The move to e-invoicing will help reduce VAT fraud by up to €11 billion a year and bring down administrative and compliance costs for EU traders by over €4.1 billion per year over the next ten years.

The move to e-invoicing will help reduce VAT fraud by up to €11 billion a year and bring down administrative and compliance costs for EU traders by over €4.1 billion per year over the next ten years.

Digital Reporting Requirements will affect cross-border B2B transactions from 1 July 2030.

In 2023, 29% of enterprises used electronic invoices suitable for automated processing, 60% used electronic invoices not suitable for automated processing, and 44% of enterprises used paper invoices.

In 2023, 29% of enterprises used electronic invoices suitable for automated processing, 60% used electronic invoices not suitable for automated processing, and 44% of enterprises used paper invoices.

In 2023, 36% of enterprises in the manufacturing sector reported using electronic invoices suitable for automated processing, compared with 30% of firms in construction and 27% in selected services.

Over 570,000 customers have now signed up to the service.

More than 436,000 sole traders and landlords have successfully sent their first Making Tax Digital for Income Tax quarterly update for the 2026 to 2027 tax year.

Around 780,000 self-employed individuals and landlords will be required to use MTD for Income Tax from April 2026, with a further 970,000 joining from April 2027.

Around 780,000 self-employed individuals and landlords will be required to use MTD for Income Tax from April 2026, with a further 970,000 joining from April 2027.

The phased introduction of MTD for Income Tax follows the successful implementation of MTD for VAT, which now helps more than two million businesses reduce errors and save time on their tax affairs.

Finance AI adoption in 2025 is consistent with last year, with 59% of finance leaders reporting the use of AI in their finance function, according to Gartner, Inc. a business and technology insights company.

Knowledge management - helping organizations organize, retrieve, and leverage information for better decision-making – is the most common AI use case (49%) in finance organizations, followed by accounts payable process automation (37%), and error and anomaly detection (34%) (see Figure 1).

First, a small segment of finance organizations show continued skepticism, with 16% reporting no planned AI implementations for the coming year.

This year, AI adoption has surged—rising from 9% in 2024 to 41% in 2025—indicating a radical shift from cautious experimentation to confident integration across firm operations.

This year’s findings show that 77% of firms plan to increase AI investment, with 35% already using it daily.

For instance, the report shows that overall organization-wide usage of AI has almost doubled in the past year to 40% in 2026, compared to 22% in 2025

Only 18% of respondents said they knew their organization was tracking return-on-investment (ROI) of AI tools in some manner, roughly the same proportion as last year.

Our research shows that just 14% of tax firms say agentic AI is currently part of their workflow, but 80% expect it to be central to how their organization operates within five years.

And users are reaping the benefits — with average time savings of 32% per task.

By the end of FY26, customer adoption of new GenAI-specific features launched in the last 18 months reached 500,000 users, and customer messages sent to JAX grew ~115% per user.

Number of Jobs, 2025 1,595,200

Employment of accountants and auditors is projected to grow 5 percent from 2025 to 2035, faster than the average for all occupations.

About 115,300 openings for accountants and auditors are projected each year, on average, over the decade.

Employment of bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks is projected to decline 6 percent from 2025 to 2035.

Despite declining employment, about 144,100 openings for bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks are projected each year, on average, over the decade.

Graduates who earned either a bachelor’s or master’s degree in accounting fell to 55,152 in the 2023-24 academic year, a drop of 6.6% compared to the previous year.

Those who earned master’s degrees in either accounting or taxation declined approximately 15% to 14,335 degrees.

Data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center document two consecutive semesters of 12% year-over-year growth i n accounting enrollment in the 2024-25 school year, which suggests the pipeline to the profession is on the upswing.

That compares to 28,082 new candidates entering the pipeline in 2024.

The 2025 testing year, which is not reflected in the Trends report, showed growth with 16,448 new candidates entering the exam pipeline through the first six months of the year.