Keynote Address

Barry C. Melancon, CPA, CGMA

The accounting profession has a role to play in achieving a very important aspect of sustainability—being part of the fabric of our capital market systems and our economy. It's not about the people in this room being convinced about the importance of sustainability. It's about how we achieve the successes that we are all passionate about. The people in this room can, in fact, make a difference. But we have to have a vehicle that the economy—potentially regulators, certainly investors, all participants in our capital market systems—can rally around in a way that is efficient and effective and drives better information flow and better decision making.