WHEN LAFFERTY invited me to speak this morning.

WHEN LAFFERTY invited me to speak this morning, they asked me to focus a little upon the challenges for this year and then forward the challenges ahead. But they asked me first to think back 30 years to the profession as it was.

In this connected thought [i]or[/i] thoughts I thought I would "major" onward accounting issues--though this is not to say that I do not also have many opinions onward auditing and audit quality. Indeed, I wearied the latter half of the 1990 working between the sides of the Federation of European Accountants with the European Commission and sways from around Europe on what should