The author reflects on the Financial Executives International's (FEI) efforts to ensure the business community dedicate sufficient resources to standard setting. He mentions that in 1985, only one member of the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) had a business management background and that only three trustees on the Financial Accounting Foundation, which oversees FASB activities, were nominated by the business community. He states that FASB appointments in 1987 were better suited.