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New book reveals Hudson’s Bay Company accounting is a lesson in survival

Administrative Studies Professor Gary Spraakman is the author of Management Accounting at the Hudson’s Bay Company: From Quill Pen to Digitization (2015). The book is a study of over three centuries of business at the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) – the longest-surviving commercial company in the world. It reveals that the evolution of management accounting supports a company’s survival strategy. Full Story