The author's claim of original work or contribution to knowledge is based on the followings (1) Part I of the thesis presents an analysis of technical and organizational factors determining the coat and production functions of the air transport undertakings. A considerable part of the analysis is based on primary source. (2) The material used in this study has been selected from the point of view of its relevance to Canadian situation and Canadian data have been extensively used. This, to the author's knowledge, has not been done previously. (3) Part II consists of the analysis of Canadian "frontier or "bush aviation".

The purpose of cost accounting is to provide management with pertinent cost measurements and analysis as a basis for managerial decisions. To fulfil this function the cost accountant has to adapt his thinking and methods to reflect the underlying economic conditions and abandon his stock-in-trade of conventional ideas. Two of the major faults of conventional accounting practice lie first in the failure to distinguish between fixed and variable costs and secondly in the unrealistic assumption, underlying much of the accountant’s work, that costs do not vary.

Over the past half century, certain outstanding events and developments, including a major economic depression, two world wars and technological innovations - automation in particular - have produced an ever-increasing awareness to the problem of economic insecurity, particularly in highly industrialized economies. The increasing accumulation of life insurance gives evidence to the deep seated desire and to the search for economic security. One of the major twentieth-century objectives of labour unions, especially since the thirties, has been the economic security of wage earners and, consequently, in most industrial economies of today, Old Age Pension, Health and Welfare, Unemployment Compensation, and several other fringe benefit programmes have become firmly established measures for ensuring a greater degree of economic security to the industrial worker.

This thesis is a study of provincial politics in the Province of Quebec during a period of relative prosperity, economic growth and expansion. The period is that of the 1920's and covers the results of three provincial general elections, those of 1919, 1923 and 1927. It, therefore, is not intended to deal with the impact of the depression on the province's political system, nor the rise of the Union Nationale Party to power in 1936.

Labour's share of the national income has long been an important field of study in economics, and many studies of advanced countries have shown that this share has remained fairly constant over long periods of time. In recent years, the emphasis in study has shifted from the size of the share to the division of the share among the Tarious labour groups, regardless of whether labour's share of the national income is increasing or not.

This paper is an attempt to assess means of stimulating the public servant to a more alert, more devoted, and more happy performance of his work. It is submitted that such an attitude held by its members would make the public service more efficient and more responsive to the desires of the public and to the demands of the changing times.

The dissertation concerns itself with changes in Canadian labour force participation rates for men and women which occurred during the post-war period or, more specifically, from mid-1946 to mid-1958. The terms of reference are to find out how the rates changed and why did the changes occur.

The recent history of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts in the House of Commons of Canada is examined against the background of Canadian and British practice and procedure. The procedure and organisation of the Committee of Public Accounts in the United Kingdom is described in detail. The Chairman of that Committee is a member of the opposition. The Committee is small. It meets in camera. Through the Permanent Secretaries as Accounting Officers the Committee exercises a continuous control over the executive.

Statistics relating to British Guiana (especially population data) are not highly developed; the majority of those which have been garnered, while they cannot give a detailed exposition of the economy can, however, illustrate generally the trend of postwar economic development.

Man's attempts to answer the seemingly eternal question 'Am I my brother's keeper?' have furnished fuel for the fires of philosophical discourse since the beginnings of recorded time and probably will continue to do so ad infinitum. For, tangled in its roots lie the complex, controversial theories of 'natural law' and out of its twisting branches stem the ideas of the 'natural rights of man'.