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Although it is coming down to the wire, there seems to be little doubt that negotiators in the House and Senate will hammer out a compromise on the reauthorization bill for the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) in the next few days or weeks.

More than five years after the implosion at Enron Corp. and other corporate scandals prompted Congress to impose strict new regulations aimed at reducing financial misconduct, little has changed on the morality front.

Converging next month on Vancouver, Canada, will be an international assembly of regulators, institutional investors, equity exchange executives, banks, CFOs, controllers and other senior finance executives to discuss XBRL and other ways to make business data more interactive, reliable, timely and accessible.

Today, accounting job candidates are more likely to ask about programs promoting a healthy balance between work and outside life than they were five years ago, according to 57% of the CFOs responding to a survey of 1,400 executives by headhunter Robert Half Finance & Accounting.

The good news on healthcare cost inflation is that it's no worse than it was last year and the three years before that. The bad news is that it's no better either--and remains stubbornly at more than double the rate of consumer inflation.

Five years after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act took effect, about one-fourth of internal audit managers surveyed by Protiviti Inc. say they have comfortably moved SOX concerns to the back burner as they refocus on traditional responsibilities.