Reaction to World War I constraints to normal trade: the meat-packing industry in Canada and Australia From: Accounting History | Date: July 1, 2005| Author: Foreman, Peter; McWatters, Cheryl S | Copyright Accounting History Special Interest Group of Accounting Association of Australia and New Zealand School of Accounting and Finance Jul 2005. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

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This study addresses the call by Carnegie and Napier (2002), for research on a cross-national basis to enhance our understanding of the historical development of accounting. Firms in the meat-packing industry in Australia and Canada are compared for the period covered by the First World War. The impact of the war was markedly different on the firms due to the very different contextual conditions applying in each country, despite common factors which were at work in both countr...

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