Books reviewed are:Donald R. Adams, Jr., Finance and Enterprise in Early America: A Study of Stephen Girards Bank 1812-1831 Reviewed by Michelle Hamer; Fred Bateman, Editor, Business in the New South: A Historical Perspective (Reviewed by Horace R....
Dissertations abstracted are: Bank Behavior, Regulation and Economic Development: California 1860-1910 by Roger Charles Lister; Land Ownership in the Economic Development of Ghana, 1945-1975 by N.W. Ababio-Appah; Interaction Between Central...
Dissertations abstracted are: An Examination of the Role of Eric Louis Kohler in the Development of the Accounting Profession by Nancy Kay Adams Humma; Abuse of Power: New York City and the Formation of Municipal Law, 1846-1866 by Jeffrey Wood...
Municipal budgets -- History;Budget in business -- HistorylBudget -- United States -- History
This paper examines certain interactions between American government and business which resulted in important innovations in the areas of budgeting and cost accounting early in the twentieth century. The evidence suggests that budgeting methods...