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