Mr. Lundy introduced financial forecasting to Ford, where the finance staff had previously focused on accounting and auditing past performance.
"If the economic outlook weakens we are prepared to respond as appropriate," said a draft statement distributed to reporters in Paris, where the finance ministers from the United States, Japan, Canada, Germany, Italy, France and Britain are meeting.
But the euro zone received a show of support from Japan on Tuesday, where the finance minister, Yoshihiko Noda, said the country plans to buy about a fifth of the bonds that the European Financial Stability Facility will sell later this month to finance the European bailout fund.
In an interview last week, Mr. Kruger said that such a change would bring the Finance Committee's leader "to its rightful place, where the finance person was looked at as maybe the second most important person in the conference and in the Senate".
Most dioceses modernized their accounting procedures somewhat over the years, Archbishop Sheehan said, but in the early 1990's embezzlement scandals shook church offices in Burlington, Vt., Denver, Wilmington, Del., San Francisco and Buffalo, where the finance director stole $1.5 million.
At Copenhagen, where the finance part of the deal was only sorted out at the very last minute, rich countries agreed to supply $30bn $20bnn) of "fast-start" financial assistance to the poor nations, and they said that by 2020, financial flows of at least $100bn a year would be provided.
