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Web-based accounting software developer Intacct has chosen a new CEO, Rob Reid.

As one whose family roots can be traced to Rome andCalabria, I pride myself in my appreciation and knowledge of my ancestralcuisine as well as the wonderful byproducts that emanate from the vineyards.

The American Institute of CPAs’ CPA2Biz subsidiary has added Copanion’s GruntWorx tax document automation software to the set of Trusted Business Advisor Solutions it sells on its Web site.

Starting salaries in the accounting and finance, information technology, and administrative fields are expected to remain relatively flat or see modest declines next year, but some positions will buck this trend, according to the 2010 Salary Guides from Robert Half International.

The Private Company Financial Reporting Committee met to discuss the impact of recent changes in accounting standards on private companies, including some confusion in the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s new Codification updates.

Grant Thornton LLP CEO Ed Nusbaum and his successor Stephen Chipman talked with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Bill Carlino about how the firm is keeping abreast of new technologies and the ideas of new staffers.

The Internal Revenue Service has issued a new form that will make it easier to order tax transcripts and help process mortgage modification applications.

Worried that corporate auditors are being duped by widespread related-party transaction frauds, officials at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board are considering new standards establishing stiffer and more specific requirements for accountants who encounter these arrangements.

CCH has introduced a new online CCH Community that allows accounting, auditing and compliance professionals to interact in a kind of social network over the Web.

The International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board has published a consultation paper seeking views on a new assurance standard it is developing for greenhouse gas emission reporting.