Encyclopedia of Business and Finance

This work intends to cover accounting, marketing, management, and information systems for the nonspecialist. Various entries address business ethics and types of careers in the diverse fields, both of which are useful features. However, a two-volume work with such a broad scope is likely to have errors of omission, and this encyclopedia is no exception. Each entry cross-references related pieces and provides a bibliography for those interested in further research. Unfortunately, some of the Internet-based references lead to either dead links or do not grant users access from a library computer (standard perils of referencing websites). Volume 1 has the only list of alphabetized entries, and Volume 2 features a set index. There is no thematic catalog of entries. Adding such a list, as well as an alphabetic inventory of entries at the beginning of each volume would make searching relevant topics a little easier (the five broad categories the reference aims to review could serve as a starting point for the thematic classifications). The content lacks the detail required at the high school level. In some passages there is a disconnect between the bibliography and the main entry. For instance, the bibliography for "Economic Systems" contains a reference on Islamic financing and another on Asian economic systems, neither of which is mentioned in the main entry.