This article is concerned with the finance of industrial and commercial companies over the fourteen years 1952-65; it examines changes in the main sources of their funds and in the main uses to which the funds have been put. Many of the statistics are rather uncertain: in particular, the national income and expenditure accounts do not fully distinguish between the transactions of industrial and commercial companies and those of other companies; and the figures for the financial transactions of companies are not wholly comprehensive, especially in the earlier years. However, it is thought that the broad outlines of the picture which emerges would not in fact be much changed even if the statistics were complete.
Published on
01 March 1967
Company finance 1952-65