The deployment of accounting-related rhetoric in the prelude to a privatization
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Discourse analysis of issues surrounding the privatization of the Canadian National Railway illustrates how accounting's technical features and language were used to support a privatization decision. The analysis was performed on published communications from the railway's chief executive officer in the internal employee newspaper.
Publication Name: Accounting, Auditing and Accountability
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0951-3574
Year: 2004
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The railway mania of 1845-1847: market irrationality or collusive swindle based on accounting distortions?
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The article disputes the conventional belief that accounting practices were at the center of the economic boom and bust of Britain's railway investment mania in the mid-19th century. Evidence includes recently obtained data on the era's depreciation accounting practices.
Publication Name: Accounting, Auditing and Accountability
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0951-3574
Year: 2003
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Accounting and the construction of the standard house
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The article examines the role played by accounting in the construction and adoption of Georgian architecture in Great Britain and its former colonies. Topics include builders' price books, expenses associated with materials dissemination, and labor costing information.
Publication Name: Accounting, Auditing and Accountability
Subject: Business
ISSN: 0951-3574
Year: 2003
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