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Accounting for the Smaller Retailer

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Small Business

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Abstract

The Bolton Report of 1971 noted eight problem areas for small businesses. We shall focus on two of the most important, and continuing problems:

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    Raising and using finance.

  2. 2.

    Costing and control information.

The authors would like to acknowledge the help of Frank Cassidy in compiling this chapter.

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  1. Dewhurst, J. and Burns, P. (1989) Small Business: Planning Finance and Control (London: Macmillan).

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© 1990 Gary Davies and Kim Harris

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Davies, G., Harris, K. (1990). Accounting for the Smaller Retailer. In: Small Business. Macmillan Small Business Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20599-8_11

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