The Center will serve to enhance the Fisher School's activities in the areas of international research and professional education. The common umbrella for these two areas enables more efficient use of support personnel, office space, and equipment allocated to these activities. Since the professional community is both the primary focus of the School's external programs and a source of research support and research participants, each area benefits from interactions with the other. The professional programs have stimulated research in accounting and the dissemination of the resulting findings.