The development of management accounting at the hudson's bay Company, 1670-1820

Accounting History

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 59-84

  Spraakman, Gary ^a   Wilkie, Alison ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Osler Hoskin and Harcourt   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hudson's bay company; Management accounting; Transaction cost economics

Indexed keywords

EID: 20344380542     PISSN: 10323732     EISSN: 17493374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/103237320000500104     Document Type: Article

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