Business is the backbone of American society and
is one of the keys to making our system work as
well as it has for more than two hundred years.
Yet as a body of knowledge, business is much
younger. There has been, to this point, no organized
work that has attempted to present the discipline
of business in a single place. The major
purpose of the Encyclopedia of Business and
Finance is to summarize the body of knowledge
that we know as business in a single place and in
language accessible to the layperson.
This two-volume collection of more than
three hundred entries presents a wealth of information
about the major functional areas of business:
accounting, economics, finance, information
systems, law, management, and marketing. The
articles vary in length and in depth, in bibliographic
support, and in writing style. Thus, the
reader will encounter a variety of approaches