The Numbers Game.

The article discusses a meeting between the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and U.S. businessmen about accounting rules in the U.S. in 1978. Executives who attended the meeting include General Motors chairman Thomas Murphy, International paper chairman J. Stanford Smith and telecommunications firm AT&T vice chairman William Cashell. Topics discussed include the accounting policies implemented by the FASB and its impact on businesses in the U.S.