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Canadian accounting developed from the roots of private enterprise accounting as it developed in major Western creditor countries, first the United Kingdom and then the United States. The viewpoint underlying accounting and financial reporting is almost entirely that of the owners of the enterprise — the proprietorship approach.

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Beechy, T.H. (1995). Canada. In: Ordelheide, D. (eds) Transnational Accounting. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13233-1_8

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