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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:44:07 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[IRS offers timing relief to hybrid pension plan sponsors]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sponsors of hybrid pension plans can take some comfort in relief issued recently by the Internal Revenue Service.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:49:06 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Federal regulators issue model privacy-notice form]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Federal regulators have released a final model privacy notice form that will make it easier for consumers to understand how financial institutions collect and share information about consumers.
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			<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:07:30 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama establishes interagency Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[President Obama has established an interagency Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force to strengthen efforts to combat financial crime. ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:55:42 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Economic sentiment flat among finance execs]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[After six months of improving expectations for the U.S. economy, optimism among CPA executives stabilized in the fourth quarter, according to a new AICPA survey.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:33:01 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[IASB completes first phase of financial instruments accounting reform]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The International Accounting Standards Board has issued a new International Financial Reporting Standard on the classification and measurement of financial assets.
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			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:04:50 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[AICPA lawsuit seeks to exempt CPAs from 'Red Flags Rule']]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The AICPA has filed a lawsuit seeking to bar the FTC from applying its Red Flags Rule to CPAs.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:45:42 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[CCH examines tax rules in health care bill]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The House version of health care reform mandates several significant changes to the tax code and differs in many ways from the tax provisions likely to appear in any Senate version.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:34:23 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[SBA, 6 schools to offer biz training for vets]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The SBA has announced a three-year agreement to expand and deliver entrepreneurship training for service-disabled veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  ]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:44:15 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[COSO supports integration of strategy, risk management]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[COSO has released a white paper that highlights specific areas where senior management can work with its board of directors to enhance the board’s risk oversight capabilities.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:26:01 GMT</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[More companies planning to reverse salary, hiring freezes]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Approximately half of the companies that froze salaries and hiring in the past year now plan to unfreeze them in the next six months.]]></description>
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