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.

FXpress Corp., the treasury and risk management software provider, has released a timely set of enhancements to its FIRST Web-based treasury workstation for corporate finance departments struggling to establish a compliance plan under FAS 157 and FAS 159.

Insight Enterprises Inc. has appointed Glynis Bryan CFO of the $3.8 billion provider of brand-name information technology hardware, software and services, with headquarters in Tempe, Ariz. Bryan, 48, succeeds Stanley Laybourne, who announced his retirement in May.

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.

FXpress Corp., the treasury and risk management software provider, has released a timely set of enhancements to its FIRST Web-based treasury workstation for corporate finance departments struggling to establish a compliance plan under FAS 157 and FAS 159.

Concur has launched a new product that automates travel planning and expense reporting, from the booking of the trip to the completed expense report.

Concur has launched a new product that automates travel planning and expense reporting, from the booking of the trip to the completed expense report.