Budgets and budgetary control in British businesses to c.1945

Trevor Boyns

Accounting History Review, 1998, vol. 8, issue 3, 261-301

Abstract: Many generalizations have been made regarding the introduction within British businesses of the costing/accounting techniques associated with the scientific management movement during the early decades of the twentieth century, but little detail is known of the process and extent of their adoption. This paper presents the findings from a survey of primary and (mainly) secondary sources regarding the use of budgets and budgetary control in Britain and raises questions as to the validity of the hypothesis that British firms failed to adopt them as rapidly as they should have done. The paper calls for detailed research into business archives in order that we can more fully understand not only the extent of their use, but also the nature of the dissemination process by which budgetary control came to be implemented in British businesses.

Keywords: Budgets; Budgetary Control; Britain; Inter-war Period; Dissemination; Archival Research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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