Online accounting software vendor Xero has named veteran consultant Gary Boomer as MVP. The New Zealand-based company handed out the award as part of events at the company's first conference, Xerocon, in the United States.

Low-end accounting and bookkeeping jobs fell by 13 percent from 2007 through 2012. During the same period, accounting and auditing jobs rose by 3 percent, according to Steve King, a partner with Emergent Research.

Intuit is developing bundled pricing for its emerging Intuit Virtual Office. That platform will tie together existing Intuit cloud applications and some third-party programs once a Homebase, a landing page, is released later this year.