Text: These issues have continued to plague the accounting profession since the 1970s despite actions taken by the profession to narrow the so-called expectation gap between what the public expects or needs and what auditors can and should reasonably be expected to accomplish.
Entailment: The problems have continued to plague the accounting profession since the 1970s.
Contradiction: After the 1970s, there were no longer any problems that plagued the accounting profession.