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Byron Henry, PhD, CPA, and Margaret Hicks, PhD
In 1968, professor Howard Stettler made six predictions on the future of the accounting profession. In the years since his speech, others have offered differing prognostications on the state and direction of the accounting profession. In 2003, the American Assembly met to consider the current state of the profession, its desired future state, and what steps were needed to bridge the gap in the aftermath of numerous financial scandals and the passage of significant legislation (American Assembly, The Future of the Accounting Profession, 2003). This group concluded that the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) symbolized an erosion of public confidence in the accounting profession, and identified the following conditions as possible causes for the decline:
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