The Big Picture has gone on the road to Washington, D.C., to attend the XBRL International annual conference. SEC Chairman Christopher Cox is scheduled to speak this morning, and rumor is he might unveil the SEC’s final rule for mandating XBRL use in financial reporting. I suspect that’s not true, since the credit crisis has left the Commission scrambling to tend to other matters. But we’ll be blogging later today or tomorrow to give you all the latest.

Incidentally, if any Compliance Week readers are attending the conference and want to meet, please shoot me an e-mail at mkelly@complianceweek.com.