Business Finance
subject: Economics, Finance, Business and Management, Finance and the finance industry
description: Developed for an international cohort, this text is designed to explain business finance concepts in an easily understood manner without overwhelming students with too much content.
creator: Sagarika Mishra
source: https://oercollective.caul.edu.au/business-finance/
publisher: Deakin University
date: 2023
contributor: Angie Williamson (editor)
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbooks

Principles of Microeconomics for AP® Courses 2e
subject: Microeconomics
description: Economics is concerned with the well-being of all people, including those with jobs and those without jobs, as well as those with high incomes and those with low incomes. Economics acknowledges that production of useful goods and services can create problems of environmental pollution. It explores the question of how investing in education helps to develop workers’ skills. It probes questions like how to tell when big businesses or big labor unions are operating in a way that benefits society as a whole and when they are operating in a way that benefits their owners or members at the expense of others. It looks at how government spending, taxes, and regulations affect decisions about production and consumption. It should be clear by now that economics covers a lot of ground. That ground can be divided into two parts: Microeconomics focuses on the actions of individual agents within the economy, like households, workers, and businesses; Macroeconomics looks at the economy as a whole. It focuses on broad issues such as growth of production, the number of unemployed people, the inflationary increase in prices, government deficits, and levels of exports and imports. Microeconomics and macroeconomics are not separate subjects, but rather complementary perspectives on the overall subject of the economy.
creator: Steven A. Greenlaw, David Shapiro
source: https://openstax.org/details/books/principles-microeconomics-ap-courses-2e
publisher: Openstax
date: 2019
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbook

Principles of Macroeconomics for AP® Courses 2e
subject: Macroeconomics
description: Principles of Macroeconomics for AP® Courses 2e covers the scope and sequence requirements for an Advanced Placement® macroeconomics course and is listed on the College Board’s AP® example textbook list. The second edition includes many current examples and recent data from FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data), which are presented in a politically equitable way. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of economics concepts. The second edition was developed with significant feedback from current users. In nearly all chapters, it follows the same basic structure of the first edition. General descriptions of the edits are provided in the preface, and a chapter-by-chapter transition guide is available for instructors.
creator: Steven A. Greenlaw, David Shapiro
source: https://d3bxy9euw4e147.cloudfront.net/oscms-prodcms/media/documents/APMacroeconomics2e-OP.pdf
publisher: Openstax
date: 2017
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English

Principles of Microeconomics: Scarcity and Social Provisioning
subject: Microeconomics
description: Principles of Economics covers scope and sequence requirements for a two-semester introductory economics course. The authors take a balanced approach to micro- and macroeconomics, to both Keynesian and classical views, and to the theory and application of economics concepts. The text also includes many current examples, which are handled in a politically equitable way.
creator: Erik Dean, Justin Elardo, Mitch Green, Benjamin Wilson, Sebastian Berger
source: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/socialprovisioning/
publisher: Open Oregon Educational Resources
date: 2016
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: Digital PDF
language: English
type: Textbook

Principles of Microeconomics an Open Text
subject: Microeconomics
description: Principles of Microeconomics provides a concise, yet complete, coverage of introductory microeconomic theory, application and policy in a Canadian and global environment. Our beginning is orthodox: We explain and develop the standard tools of analysis in the discipline. Economic policy is about the well-being of the economy’s participants, and economic theory should inform economic policy. So we investigate the meaning of ‘well-being’ in the context of an efficient use of the economy’s resources early in the text. We next develop an understanding of individual optimizing behaviour. This behaviour in turn is used to link household decisions on savings with firms’ decisions on production, expansion and investment. A natural progression is to explain production and cost structures
creator: Douglas Curtis and Ian Irvine
source: https://laecon1.lyryx.com/textbooks/CURTIS_PRIN_MIC_1/marketing/CI-Principles-of-Microeconomics-2017B.pdf
publisher: lyryx learning.com
date: 2017
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbook

Principles of MACROECONOMICS an Open Text
subject: MACROECONOMICS
description: Principles of Macroeconomics provides complete, concise coverage of introductory macroeconomic theory and policy. It examines the Canadian economy as an economic system, and embeds current Canadian institutions and approaches to monetary policy and fiscal policy within that system. Particular attention is given to the recent structure, performance, and evolution of the Canadian economy, and to the current targets and instruments of Canadian monetary and fiscal policy. These are exciting and challenging times in which to study macroeconomics. We focus on shortrun macroeconomic performance, analysis, and policy motivated by the recessions of the early 1980s and 1990s, the financial crisis and recession of 2008-2009, and the prolonged recovery that is still incomplete in several industrial countries in 2017.
creator: Douglas Curtis and Ian Irvine
source: https://laecon1.lyryx.com/textbooks/CURTIS_PRIN_MAC_1/marketing/CI-Principles-of-Macroeconomics-2017B.pdf
publisher: Lyryx Learning .com
date: 2017
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbook

U.S. Federal Income Taxation of Individuals 2017
subject: Income Taxation
description: This textbook is not intended to be an exhaustive treatise; rather, it is intended to be far more useful than that for beginning tax law students by equipping the novice not merely with unmoored detail but rather with a rich blueprint that illuminates the deeper structural framework on which that detail hangs (sometimes crookedly). Chapter 1 outlines the conceptual meaning of the term “income” for uniquely tax purposes (as opposed to financial accounting or trust law purposes, for example) and examines the Internal Revenue Code provisions that translate this larger conceptual construct into positive law. Chapter 2 explores various forms of consumption taxation because the modern Internal
creator: Deborah Geier
source: https://www.cali.org/sites/default/files/Geier_casebook_2017.pdf
publisher: CALI's eLangdell® Press
date: 2017
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbook

An Introduction to Cooperation and Mutualism
subject: Cooperation,
description: This textbook introduces readers to the idea of cooperation and mutualism. Cooperatives and mutuals are participatory organizations in which members participate in control and governance, receive economic benefits through patronage refunds or net income, and become owners through equity. These mutual-benefit organizations exist alongside non-profit organizations and investor-benefit organizations through the global economy.
creator: Michael Boland
source: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/an-introduction-to-cooperation-and-mutualism
publisher: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
date: 2017
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Textbook

Sustaining the Commons
subject: Sustaining
description: This textbook discusses the main framework, concepts and applications of the work of Elinor Ostrom and her colleagues for an undergraduate audience. We began teaching a course on collective and the commons in 2007 at Arizona State University. Initially we made use of Ostrom's classic book “Governing the Commons”, but this book was not written for an undergraduate audience. Moreover, many new insights have been developed since the 1990 publication of “Governing the Commons”. Therefore we decided to write our own textbook, which we have been using since the Spring of 2012.
creator: John Anderies, Marco Janssen
source: https://open.umn.edu
publisher: Independent
date: 2016
contributor: Baihaqi
rights: Creative Commons
format: PDF
language: English
type: Ebook

Making work more equal
subject: Making
description: This book is inspired by, and dedicated to, Jill Rubery. Jill is a major figure in international debates on inequalities in work and employment. Her intellectual contributions are renowned for both their critical questioning of mainstream theoretical approaches, whether in economics, management, industrial relations or comparative systems, and their attention to real-world empirical detail. Jill’s intellectual roots are with the influential Cambridge economics group researching labour market segmentation in the late 1970s and 1980s during a period when Keynesian economic thought was being eclipsed by neoclassical economics modelling. The research was inter-disciplinary, grounded in data (mostly involving case studies of firms) and driven by an ambitious intellectual agenda that developed theory while also illuminating practical matters of relevance to policy-makers and practitioners.
creator: Damian Grimshaw,
creator: Colette Fagan,
creator: Gail Hebson,
creator: Isabel Tavora,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Manchester University Press, Manchester
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

The Infrastructure Finance Challenge
subject: Finance
description: "Infrastructure and its effects on economic growth, social welfare, and sustainability receive a great deal of attention today. There is widespread agreement that infrastructure is a key dimension of global development and that its impact reaches deep into the broader economy with important and complex implications for social progress. At the same time, infrastructure finance is among the most complex and challenging areas in the global financial architecture. Ingo Walter, Professor of Finance, Corporate Governance and Ethics Emeritus at the Stern School of Business, New York University, and his team of experts tackles the issue by focussing on key findings backed by serious theoretical and empirical research. The result is a set of viable guideposts for researchers, policy-makers, students and anybody interested in the complex challenges of contemporary economy. "
creator: Ingo Walter,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Open Book Publishers
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative commons
type: Textbooks

The Practice of Industrial Policy
subject: Industrial
description: Much of the information relevant to policy formulation for industrial development is held by the private sector, not by public officials. There is, therefore, fairly broad agreement in the development literature that some form of structured engagement—often referred to as close or strategic coordination—between the public and private sectors is needed, to assist in the design of appropriate policies and provide feedback on their implementation. There is less agreement on how that engagement should be structured, how its objectives be defined, and how success be measured. In fact, the academic literature provides little practical guidance on how governments interested in developing such a framework should go about doing it. The burden of this lack of guidance falls most heavily on Africa, where—despite twenty years of growth—lack of structural transformation has slowed job creation and the pace of poverty reduction. In 2014, the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) launched a joint research project: The Practice of Industrial Policy. The aim is to help African policy makers develop better coordination between public and private sectors in order to identify the constraints to faster structural transformation and design, implement, and monitor policies to remove them. This book, written by national researchers and international experts, presents the results of that research by combining a set of analytical ‘framing’ essays on close coordination with case studies of successful and unsuccessful efforts at close coordination in Africa and in comparator countries.
creator: John Page
creator: Finn Tarp,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans: The Lure of the Local Film Economy
subject: Economy
description: Early in the twenty-first century, Louisiana, one of the poorest states in the United States, redirected millions in tax dollars from the public coffers in an effort to become the top location site globally for the production of Hollywood films and television series. Why would lawmakers support such a policy? Why would citizens accept the policy’s uncomfortable effects on their economy and culture? Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans addresses these questions through a study of the local and everyday experiences of the film economy in New Orleans, Louisiana—a city that has twice taken the mantle of becoming a movie production capital. From the silent era to today’s Hollywood South, Vicki Mayer explains that the aura of a film economy is inseparable from a prevailing sense of home, even as it changes that place irrevocably.
creator: Vicki Mayer,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: University of California Press, Oakland, California
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Macroeconomics: Theory through Applications
subject: Macroeconomics
description: Russell Cooper and Andrew John have written an economics text aimed directly at students from its very inception. You’re thinking, ”Yeah, sure. I’ve heard that before.“ This textbook, Macroeconomics: Theory Through Applications, centers around student needs and expectations through two premises: … Students are motivated to study economics if they see that it relates to their own lives. … Students learn best from an inductive approach, in which they are first confronted with a problem, and then led through the process of solving that problem. Many books claim to present economics in a way that is digestible for students; Russell and Andrew have truly created one from scratch. This textbook will assist you in increasing students’ economic literacy both by developing their aptitude for economic thinking and by presenting key insights about economics that every educated individual should know. How? Russell and Andrew have done three things in this text to accomplish that goal: 1. Applications Ahead of Theory: They present all the theory that is standard in Principles books. But by beginning with applications, students get to learn why this theory is needed. The authors take the kind of material that other authors put in ”applications boxes“ and place it at the heart of their book. Each chapter is built around a particular business or policy application, such as social security, globalization, and the wealth and poverty of nations. Why take this approach? Traditional courses focus too much on abstract theory relative to the interests and capabilities of the average undergraduate. Students are rarely engaged and the formal theory is never integrated into the way students think about economic issues. And traditional books are organized around theoretical constructs that mean nothing to students. The authors’ applications-first approach ensures that students will not see chapters with titles like ”Cost Functions“ or ”Short-Run Fluctuations“. They introduce tools and ideas a…
creator: Russell Cooper
creator: Andrew John
publisher: Saylor Foundation
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Risk Management for Enterprises and Individuals
subject: Risk Management
description: This book is intended for the Risk Management and Insurance course where Risk Management is emphasized. When we think of large risks, we often think in terms of natural hazards such as hurricanes, earthquakes or tornados. Perhaps man-made disasters come to mind such as the terrorist attacks in the U.S. on September 11, 2001. Typically we have overlooked financial crises, such as the credit crisis of 2008. However, these types of man-made disasters have the potential to devastate the global marketplace. Losses in multiple trillions of dollars and in much human suffering and insecurity are already being totaled, and the global financial markets are collapsing as never before seen. We can attribute the 2008 collapse to financially risky behavior of a magnitude never before experienced. The 2008 U.S. credit markets were a financial house of cards. A basic lack of risk management (and regulators' inattention or inability to control these overt failures) lay at the heart of the global credit crisis. This crisis started with lack of improperly underwritten mortgages and excessive debt. Companies depend on loans and lines of credit to conduct their routine business. If such credit lines dry up, production slows down and brings the global economy to the brink of deep recession—or even depression. The snowballing effect of this failure to manage the risk associated with providing mortgage loans to unqualified home buyers have been profound, indeed. When the mortgages failed because of greater risk- taking on the Street, the entire house of cards collapsed. Probably no other risk-related event has had, and will continue to have, as profound an impact world wide as this risk management failure. How was risk in this situation so badly managed? What could firms and individuals have done to protect themselves? How can government measure such risks (beforehand) to regulate and control them? These and other questions come to mind when we contemplate the consequences of this risk man…
creator: Etti Baranoff
creator: Patrick Brockett
creator: Yehuda Kahane
publisher: http://www.saylor.org/site/textbooks/Risk%20Management%20for%20Enterprises%20and%20Individuals.pdf
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Small Business Management in the 21st Century
subject: Business
subject: Management
description: Small Business Management in the 21st Century offers a unique perspective and set of capabilities for instructors. The authors designed this book with a “less can be more” approach, and by treating small business management as a practical human activity rather than as an abstract theoretical concept. The text has a format and structure that will be familiar to you if you use other books on small business management. Yet it brings a fresh perspective by incorporating three distinctive and unique themes and an important new feature (Disaster Watch) which is embedded throughout the entire text. These themes assure that students see the material in an integrated context rather than a stream of separate and distinct topics. First, the authors incorporate the use of technology and e-business as a way to gain competitive advantage over larger rivals. Technology is omnipresent in today’s business world. Small business must use it to its advantage. We provide practical discussions and examples of how a small business can use these technologies without having extensive expertise or expenditures. Second, they explicitly acknowledge the constant need to examine how decisions affect cash flow by incorporating cash flow impact content in several chapters. As the life blood of all organizations, cash flow implications must be a factor in all business decision-making. Third, they recognize the need to clearly identify sources of customer value and bring that understanding to every decision. Decisions that do not add to customer value should be seriously reconsidered. Small Business Management in 21st Century boasts a new feature called Disaster Watch scenarios. Few texts cover, in any detail, some of the major hazards that small business managers face. Disaster Watch scenarios, included in most chapters, cover topics that include financing, bankers, creditors, employees, customers who don’t pay, economic downturns, and marketing mistakes.
creator: David Cadden
creator: Sandra Lueder
publisher: Saylor Foundation
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Project Management from Simple to Complex
subject: Project Management
description: In a world that is becoming more virtual, more global, and more complex, the project manager’s ability to function in this environment becomes critical to the success of the project. Project Management from Simple to Complex explores project management within this complex, virtual, and global environment. This is not a standard textbook that was adapted to the new publishing paradigm; it was designed from the beginning to utilize its capabilities. The book is written in collaboration by an expert in Project Management and an expert in writing instructional textbooks and using technology for communicating online to create a unique learning environment that prepares students to manage projects in a global, multicultural, and online environment. Project Management from Simple to Complex features a new model for managing projects, as well as, exploration into the personal dynamics of project management and the role those dynamics play in project outcomes.
publisher: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Sustainability, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
subject: Sustainability
subject: Innovation
subject: Entrepreneurship
description: This book is suited for the Entrepreneurship or Innovation course with an emphasis on Sustainability or for a course devoted entirely to Sustainability. What are the trends and forces underlying the changing character of the business-environment relationship? How they are creating significant entrepreneurial opportunities for individuals and companies? Around the world, the movement toward ”sustainable development“ has caused many firms to adopt policies and practices that reflect what is sometimes called a ”sustainable business“ or ”triple bottom line“ approach. ”Triple bottom line“ refers to the demonstration of strong performance across economic, social, and environmental indicators. Those measures serve as indicators of fiduciary responsibility to a growing set of concerned investors and therefore can help ensure access to capital. They also enable innovators to lower costs, create strategic differentiation, reduce risk, and position themselves for competitive advantage over rivals less attuned to trends. The deep roots of sustainability thinking are now evident in widespread and increasingly visible activities worldwide, and Sustainability, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship explores this evolution; its necessity, its implications and its progression.
creator: Andrea Larson
publisher: Saylor Foundation
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

The Business Ethics Workshop
subject: Business
subject: Ethics
description: Ethics is about determining value; it’s deciding what’s worth doing and what doesn’t matter so much. Business ethics is the way we decide what kind of career to pursue, what choices we make on the job, which companies we want to work with, and what kind of economic world we want to live in and then leave behind for those coming after. There are no perfect answers to these questions, but there’s a difference between thinking them through and winging it. The Business Ethics Workshop provides a framework for identifying, analyzing, and resolving ethical dilemmas encountered through working life.
creator: James Brusseau
publisher: Saylor Foundation
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Microeconomics: Theory Through Applications
subject: Microeconomics
description: Russell Cooper and Andrew John have written an economics text aimed directly at students from its very inception. You’re thinking, ”Yeah, sure. I’ve heard that before.“ This textbook, Microeconomics: Theory Through Applications, centers around student needs and expectations through two premises: … Students are motivated to study economics if they see that it relates to their own lives. … Students learn best from an inductive approach, in which they are first confronted with a problem, and then led through the process of solving that problem. Many books claim to present economics in a way that is digestible for students; Russell and Andrew have truly created one from scratch. This textbook will assist you in increasing students’ economic literacy both by developing their aptitude for economic thinking and by presenting key insights about economics that every educated individual should know. How? Russell and Andrew have done three things in this text to accomplish that goal: 1. Applications Ahead of Theory: They present all the theory that is standard in Principles books. But by beginning with applications, students get to learn why this theory is needed. The authors take the kind of material that other authors put in ”applications boxes“ and place it at the heart of their book. Each chapter is built around a particular business or policy application, such as minimum wages, the stock exchange, and auctions. Why take this approach? Traditional courses focus too much on abstract theory relative to the interests and capabilities of the average undergraduate. Students are rarely engaged and the formal theory is never integrated into the way students think about economic issues. And traditional books are organized around theoretical constructs that mean nothing to students. The authors’ applications-first approach ensures that students will not see chapters with titles like ”Cost Functions“ or ”Short-Run Fluctuations“. They introduce tools and ideas as and when they are ne…
creator: Russell Cooper
creator: Andrew John
publisher: Saylor Foundation
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Legal Aspects of Marketing and Sales
subject: Marketing
subject: Sales
description: Legal Aspects of Marketing and Sales is an up-to-date textbook that covers legal issues that students who will work in marketing or with marketing managers must understand. The text is organized to permit instructors to tailor the materials to their particular approach. The authors take special care to engage students by relating law to everyday events with their clear, concise and readable style. After introductory chapters covering the legal environment of business, Legal Aspects of Marketing and Sales provides students with context and essential legal concepts relating to contracts, sales, intellectual property, antitrust law and unfair trade practices. The text provides the vocabulary and legal savvy they will need to talk in an educated way to customers, suppliers, shareholders, government regulators and other stakeholders — and to their own lawyers.
creator: Don Mayer
creator: Daniel Warner
creator: George Siedel
creator: Jethro Lieberman
publisher: Saylor Foundation
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Legal Aspects of Corporate Management and Finance
subject: Management
subject: Finance
description: Legal Aspects of Corporate Management and Finance is an up-to-date textbook that covers key legal issues relating to corporate management and finance. The text is organized to permit instructors to tailor the materials to their particular approach. The authors take special care to engage students by relating law to everyday events with their clear, concise and readable style. After introductory chapters covering the legal environment of business, Legal Aspects of Corporate Management and Finance provides students with context and essential legal concepts relating to contracts, agency law, partnerships, corporations, commercial paper, debtors and creditors. The text provides the vocabulary and legal savvy students will need to talk in an educated way to customers, suppliers, employees, creditors, shareholders, government regulators and other stakeholders — and to their own lawyers.
creator: Don Mayer
creator: Daniel Warner
creator: George Siedel
creator: Jethro Lieberman
publisher: Saylor Foundation
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Critical Management Studies in the South African context
subject: Management
description: The purpose of the book is to establish the first formalised scholarly work on critical management studies (CMS) in the South African context. The book is a collection of seven chapters, six of which employ a conceptual methodology and one of which follows an interpretive paradigm employing qualitative methods of inquiry. CMS is a relatively young school of thought, arising in the early 1990s and still very much being a peripheral movement within the academic discipline of management. South Africa has very little scholarship on CMS as precious few scholars work in this space. Furthermore, publication opportunities are virtually non-existent as CMS is virtually unknown in the South African community of management scholars. Thus, this book represents the first academic work on CMS published in South Africa, written and reviewed by scholars who are familiar with the field. The primary target readership would be management academics, but it could also be a useful reference for postgraduate students in management. A digital similarities index report confirms the originality of the work and that it has not been plagiarised or published elsewhere.
creator: Geoff A. Goldman,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: AOSIS, Durbanville
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

https://oer.uinsyahada.ac.id/items/show/851
title: Information technology project manager's competencies : an analysis of performance and personal competenciesInformation technology project manager's competencies : an analysis of performance and personal competencies
subject: Information
subject: technology
description: The purpose of this book is to shed light on the performance and personal competencies of information technology (IT) project managers in South Africa. Predictive models are built to determine what project managers consider the crucial competencies they should possess to deliver an IT project successfully. This investigation takes place in the context of poor IT project success rates globally and, in particular, in South Africa. This novel research seeks to extend the debate on project success beyond what merely constitutes success or failure, but seeks to find clarity in what IT project managers believe are the essential competencies in practice. This quantitative research gathered data by way of an online survey based on literature regarding the Project Management Competency Development Framework (PMCDF). The population consisted of IT project managers in South Africa. Four hundred and two respondents chose to share their insights. Through the use of descriptive and multivariate statistics, major competency factors were identified. These factors were used in structural equation modelling to build various validated predictive models. This book contributes to the current body of knowledge by uncovering the competencies that IT project managers consider themselves competent in. The structural equation models indicated predictors of perceived competence by IT project managers and where these perceived competencies differ from literature. Twelve managerial implications are highlighted in the final chapter that seek to draw the myriad of threads together into a coherent summary. It is apparent that IT project managers do not consider the PMCDF important in its entirety, but instead choose to focus on certain competencies. This book is intended for reading by fellow researchers as well as project and IT practitioners. These may include IT managers, IT executives, project managers, project team members, the project management office (PMO), general managers and executives …
creator: Carl Marnewick,
creator: Wikus Erasmus,
creator: Nazeer Josep,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: AOSIS, Durbanville
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Introductory Business Statistics
subject: Business Statistics
description: Introductory Business Statistics is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the one-semester statistics course for business, economics, and related majors. Core statistical concepts and skills have been augmented with practical business examples, scenarios, and exercises. The result is a meaningful understanding of the discipline, which will serve students in their business careers and real-world experiences.
creator: Lex Holmes
creator: Susan Dean
creator: Barbara Illowsky
publisher: OpenStax
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Governing Failure - Provisional Expertise and the Transformation of Global Development Finance
subject: Finance
description: Jacqueline Best argues that the changes in International Monetary Fund, World Bank and donor policies in the 1990s, towards what some have called the 'Post-Washington Consensus,' were driven by an erosion of expert authority and an increasing preoccupation with policy failure. Failures such as the Asian financial crisis and the decades of despair in sub-Saharan Africa led these institutions to develop governance strategies designed to avoid failure: fostering country ownership, developing global standards, managing risk and vulnerability and measuring results. In contrast to the structural adjustment era when policymakers were confident that they had all the answers, the author argues that we are now in an era of provisional governance, in which key actors are aware of the possibility of failure even as they seek to inoculate themselves against it. This book considers the implications of this shift, asking if it is a positive change and whether it is sustainable. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.
creator: Jacqueline Best,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK - New York, USA
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: textbooks

Introduction to Contracts, Sales and Product Liability
subject: Contracts
subject: Sales
subject: Product Liability
description: This textbook provides context and essential concepts across the entire range of legal issues with which managers and business executives must grapple. The text provides the vocabulary and legal acumen necessary for businesspeople to talk in an educated way to their customers, employees, suppliers, government officials—and to their own lawyers. Traditional publishers often create confusion among customers in the text selection process by offering a huge array of publications. Once a text is selected, customers might still have to customize the text to meet their needs. For example, publishers usually offer books that include either case summaries or excerpted cases, but some instructors prefer to combine case summaries with a few excerpted cases so that students can experience reading original material. Likewise, the manner in which most conventional texts incorporate video is cumbersome because the videos are contained in a separate library, which makes access more complicating for instructors and students.
creator: Don Mayer
creator: Jethro Lieberman
creator: George Siedel
creator: Daniel Warner
publisher: Saylor Foundation
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

International Economics: Theory and Policy
subject: Economics
description: This text strives to reach a median between these two approaches. First, I believe that students need to learn the theory and models to understand how economists understand the world. I also think these ideas are accessible to most students if they are explained thoroughly. This text presents numerous models in some detail, not by employing advanced mathematics, but rather by walking students through a detailed description of how a model’s assumptions influence its conclusions. Second, and perhaps more important, students must learn how the models connect with the real world. I believe that theory is done primarily to guide policy. We do positive economics to help answer the normative questions; for example, what should a country do about its trade policy or its exchange rate policy? The results from models give us insights that help us answer these questions. Thus this text strives to explain why each model is interesting by connecting its results to some aspect of a current policy issue. A prime example is found in Chapter 11 "Evaluating the Controversy between Free Trade and Protectionism" of this book, which addresses the age-old question of whether countries should choose free trade or some type of selected protection. The chapter demonstrates how the results of the various models presented throughout the text contribute to our understanding of this long-standing debate.
creator: Steve Suranovic
publisher: Saylor Foundation
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Growth and Competitive Strategy in 3 Circles
subject: Growth
subject: Competitive Strategy
description: The 3-Circle model was developed over the past several years, initially in strategic planning for a university graduate program and in an executive MBA course designed to integrate the concepts of marketing and competitive strategy. Over the course of time, the 3-Circle model has been successfully used by hundreds of organizations throughout the world in establishing and growing their market positions. Many of the case examples in this book demonstrating applications of the 3-Circle model applications are from executives who have attended executive education training at the University of Notre Dame. The development of competitive strategy is difficult because there are a lot of moving parts, as well as hundreds of frameworks, that might potentially guide the effort. Executives appreciate how the 3-Circle model simplifies the integration of customer, firm, and competitor analysis to generate growth strategies. It also provides a common language and process for understanding and explaining competitive advantage and for identifying profitable growth strategy.
creator: Joe Urbany
publisher: Saylor Foundation
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
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Financial Accounting
subject: Financial Accounting
subject: Economics
description: This book is intended for an undergraduate or MBA level Financial Accounting course. It covers the standard topics in a standard sequence, utilizing the Socratic method of asking and answering questions.
publisher: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
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Economics: Theory Through Applications
subject: Economics
description: Russell Cooper and Andrew John have written an economics text aimed directly at students from its very inception. You’re thinking, ”Yeah, sure. I’ve heard that before.“ This textbook, Economics: Theory Through Applications, centers around student needs and expectations through two premises: … Students are motivated to study economics if they see that it relates to their own lives. … Students learn best from an inductive approach, in which they are first confronted with a problem, and then led through the process of solving that problem. Many books claim to present economics in a way that is digestible for students; Russell and Andrew have truly created one from scratch. This textbook will assist you in increasing students’ economic literacy both by developing their aptitude for economic thinking and by presenting key insights about economics that every educated individual should know. How? Russell and Andrew have done thre e things in this text to accomplish that goal: Applications Ahead of Theory: They present all the theory that is standard in Principles books. But by beginning with applications, students get to learn why this theory is needed. Learning through Repetition: Important tools appear over and over again, allowing students to learn from repetition and to see how one framework can be useful in many different contexts. A Student’s Table of Contents vs. An Instructor’s Table of Contents: There is no further proof that Russell and Andrew have created a book aimed specifically at educating students about economics than their two tables of contents.
creator: Russell Cooper
creator: Andrew John
publisher: Saylor Foundation
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
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Principles of Managerial Economics
subject: Managerial Economics
description: One standard definition for economics is the study of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. A second definition is the study of choice related to the allocation of scarce resources. The first definition indicates that economics includes any business, nonprofit organization, or administrative unit. The second definition establishes that economics is at the core of what managers of these organizations do. This book presents economic concepts and principles from the perspective of “managerial economics,” which is a subfield of economics that places special emphasis on the choice aspect in the second definition. The purpose of managerial economics is to provide economic terminology and reasoning for the improvement of managerial decisions. Most readers will be familiar with two different conceptual approaches to the study of economics: microeconomics and macroeconomics. Microeconomics studies phenomena related to goods and services from the perspective of individual decision-making entities—that is, households and businesses. Macroeconomics approaches the same phenomena at an aggregate level, for example, the total consumption and production of a region. Microeconomics and macroeconomics each have their merits. The microeconomic approach is essential for understanding the behavior of atomic entities in an economy. However, understanding the systematic interaction of the many households and businesses would be too complex to derive from descriptions of the individual units. The macroeconomic approach provides measures and theories to understand the overall systematic behavior of an economy. Since the purpose of managerial economics is to apply economics for the improvement of managerial decisions in an organization, most of the subject material in managerial economics has a microeconomic focus. However, since managers must consider the state of their environment in making decisions and the environment includes the overall economy, an unders…
creator: The Open University of Hong Kong
publisher: The Saylor Foundation
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
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Operations Management
subject: Management
subject: Economics
creator: Prof. Fabio De Felice
creator: Dr. Stanislao Monfreda
creator: Dr. Antonella Petrillo
creator: Dr.Ing. Maria Elena Nenni
creator: Prof. Raffaele Iannone
creator: Prof. Vito Introna
creator: Dr. Alessio Giuiusa
creator: Dr. Filippo De Carlo
publisher: InTech
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
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Principles of Finance
subject: Finance
subject: Economics
description: Finance is an imprecise generalization that may encompass several branches of economics, law and general know-how on managing valuable assets. From simple currency and property to bonds and other more complex financial instruments. More specifically, one can state that through financial analysis and decisions, planed actions can be taken regarding the collection and use of those assets as to optimize financial resources toward the objectives of an organization (states, companies and businesses) or individual.
creator: Wikibooks
publisher: Wikibooks
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
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Quantitative Models for Financial Risk
subject: Quantitative
subject: Financial
description: In recent decades, the fields of financial mathematics and financial risk evaluation have undergone explosive development. Financial mathematics, broadly defined, is a class of applied mathematics devoted to modelling and analysing financial markets, and to aiding the management of financial resources. We focus on the analysis of financial derivatives; in particular, options for pricing and hedging.
creator: The Open University of Hong Kong
publisher: The Open University of Hong Kong
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Project Management from Simple to Complex
subject: Management
subject: Economics
description: Faster, cheaper, and better has become the mantra of not only profit-making organizations seeking to increase market share and profits but also nonprofits and governmental organizations seeking to increase their value to clients. Organizations are increasingly using projects to meet these goals. Projects are goal directed and time framed, and when managed well, projects deliver on time and within budget. This book is about how to manage projects well. All projects have common characteristics: every project has a scope, budget, and schedule. Projects also differ. Understanding how projects differ and what that difference means to the management of the project is critical to successfully managing a project. Large, complex projects need project management tools, systems, and processes that are very different from the small and less complex project. Within this text, we provide a tool for profiling a project based on the complexity of the project and describe the different project management approaches needed for the difference in project profiles. Project management is complicated. In some ways, this is a good thing because students who learn how to manage projects well will find it a rewarding career, and there will always be a demand for their services. Project management is complicated because projects consist of many activities that are interrelated, and the actions taken in one activity affect several other aspects of the project. Project management is complex because project managers must understand several knowledge areas and develop a variety of tools and techniques to successfully manage a project. This complexity makes it challenging to learn about project management because regardless of which activity you begin to study, you need to know something about the other activities to which it is related.
creator: Russell W. Darnall
creator: John M. Preston
publisher: The Saylor Foundation
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
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Global Business Strategy: A Systems Approach
subject: Global Business
description: The greatest dilemma facing the author of a textbook on international business strategy is estimating readers' knowledge of the domain. Should the author assume that the student already comprehends such subjects as international economics, international trade, and international finance? Or should the book deal extensively with these subjects before tackling management issues? After over fifteen years of teaching, I have come to recognize that the appropriate compromise is to provide a quick refresher on international economics, trade, and finance. For this reason, Global Business Strategy: A Systems Approach builds a good theoretical base before addressing the basic functions, or tasks, of global management. The philosophy underlying this work is that international managers are practitioners of economics and, in particular, its subdiscipline of international economics. Just as a good engineer must learn the science of physics before practicing engineering, and a physician the science of biology before practicing medicine, international managers must learn international economics before they can begin practicing global management.
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
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Fundamentals of Global Strategy A Business Model Approach
subject: Global Strategy
subject: Business
description: This book looks at the opportunities and risks associated with staking out a global competitive presence and introduces the fundamentals of global strategic thinking. We define crafting a global strategy in terms of change—how a company should change and adapt its core (domestic) business model to achieve a competitive advantage as it expands globally. The conceptual framework behind this definition has three fundamental building blocks: a company’s core business model, the various strategic decisions a company needs to make as it globalizes its operations, and a range of globalization strategies for creating a global competitive advantage. We use Pankaj Ghemawat’s well-known “AAA Triangle” framework to describe three generic approaches to global value creation. Adaptation strategies seek to increase revenues and market share by tailoring one or more components of a company’s business model to suit local requirements or preferences. Aggregation strategies focus on achieving economies of scale or scope by creating regional or global efficiencies; they typically involve standardizing a significant portion of the value proposition and grouping together development and production processes. Arbitrage is about exploiting economic or other differences between national or regional markets, usually by locating separate parts of the supply chain in different places. A business model is simply a description of how a company does business. It has four principal components: (a) market participation, that is, who its customers are, how it reaches them and relates to them; (b) the value proposition, or, what a companyoffers its customers; (c) the supply-chain infrastructure, that is, with what resources,activities, and partners it creates its offerings; and finally, (d) its management model, or, how it organizes and coordinates its operations. Globalization requires a company to make strategic decisions about each component of the business model. Market participation decisions in…
publisher: Saylor Academy
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
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Electronic Commerce: The Strategic Perspective
subject: Electronic
description: This book is written both for practitioners and business students. Managers wishing to understand how electronic commerce is revolutionizing business will find that our comprehensive coverage of essential business issues (e.g., pricing and distribution) answers many of their questions. Advanced business students (junior, seniors, and graduate students) will find that the blend of academic structure and practical examples provides an engaging formula for learning. The book’s title reflects some key themes that we develop. First, we are primarily concerned with electronic commerce, which we define as using technology (e.g., the Internet) to communicate or transact with stakeholders (e.g., customers). Second, we discuss how organizations must change in order to take advantage of electronic commerce opportunities. In this sense, our book offers the strategic perspective (i.e., the best way to operate a successful business in the 21st century). Third, with the growing importance of the Internet and related technologies, organizations must take electronic commerce into account when they are creating strategic plans. Thus, electronic commerce is a strategic perspective that all firms must adopt, both in the present and in the future. In other words, an organization that does not explicitly consider electronic commerce as a strategic imperative is probably making a crucial error. Here, we focus primarily on the opportunities and tactics that can lead to success in the electronic marketplace.
creator: Richard T. Watson
creator: Pierre Berthon
creator: Leyland F. Pitt
creator: George M. Zinkhan
publisher: Global Text
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
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Developing New Products and Services
subject: Products
subject: Services
description: A central theme of this book is that there is, or should be, a constant struggle going on in every organization, business, and system. The struggle is fueled by the dynamic tension that exists between delivering Midas feature-rich versions of products and services using extravagant engineering and delivering low-cost Hermes versions of products and services using frugal engineering (see the following figure). Midas versions are high-end products for nonprice-sensitive consumers. Hermes versions are for price-sensitive consumers. The results of this dynamic tension between Midas versioning and Hermes versioning are Atlas products and services. Atlas products and services are designed for mainstream consumers. Atlas products and services incorporate the product design features that will attract the broadest customer base and will also be profitable. The driving force behind the development of Midas, Atlas, and Hermes versions is driven by the implicit creative genius that everyone possess and most businesses should possess as they engage in continuous learning-about and learn-by-doing activities.
creator: G. Lawrence Sanders
publisher: The Saylor Foundation
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Core Concepts of Marketing
subject: Marketing
description: Through good economic times and bad, marketing remains the pivotal function in any business. Determining and satisfying the needs of customers through products that have value and accessibility and whose features are clearly communicated is the general purpose of any business. It is also a fundamental definition of marketing. This text introduces students to the marketing strategies and tools that practitioners use to market their products.
creator: John Burnett
publisher: Internet Archive
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
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Marketing
subject: Marketing
description: Marketing is the science of meeting the needs of a customer by providing valuable products to customers by utilizing the expertise of the organization, at same time, to achieve organizational goals. According to The American Marketing Association (htt p://www.marketingpower.com/AboutAMA/Pages/DefinitionofMarketing.aspx) Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large. With this definition, it is important to realize that the customer can be an individual user, a company, or several people who contribute to the purchasing decision. The product can be a hard good, a service, or even an idea – anything that would provide some value to the person who provides an exchange. An exchange is most often thought of as money, but could also be a donation of time or effort, or even a specific action. A producer is often a company, but could be an individual or non-profit organization.
creator: Wikibooks
publisher: Wikibooks
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Macroeconomics
subject: Macroeconomics
description: The purpose of this topic is to look at the nature and purpose of the science of economics. The methodology is studied. A distinction is made between positive (or descriptive) economics and normative (or political) economics. Different branches of economics are classified. Some pitfalls of economic analysis are mentioned.
creator: John Petroff
publisher: Professional Education, Testing and Certification Organization International
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Dull Disasters? How planning ahead will make a difference
subject: planning
description: Economic losses from disasters are now reaching an average of US$250–$300 billion a year. In the last 20 years, more than 530,000 people died as a direct result of extreme weather events; millions more were seriously injured. Most of the deaths and serious injuries were in developing countries. Meanwhile, highly infectious diseases will continue to emerge or re-emerge, and natural hazards will not disappear. But these extreme events do not need to turn into large-scale disasters. Better and faster responses are possible. The authors contend that even though there is much generosity in the world to support the responses to and recovery from natural disasters, the current funding model, based on mobilizing financial resources after disasters take place, is flawed and makes responses late, fragmented, unreliable, and poorly targeted, while providing poor incentives for preparedness or risk reduction. The way forward centres around reforming the funding model for disasters, moving towards plans with simple rules for early action and that are locked in before disasters through credible funding strategies—all while resisting the allure of post-disaster discretionary funding and the threat it poses for those seeking to ensure that disasters have a less severe impact.
creator: Daniel J. Clarke,
creator: Stefan Dercon,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Business Ethics
subject: Business
subject: Ethics
creator: Jose A. Cruz-Cruz
creator: William Frey
publisher: Connexions, Rice University, Houston, Texas
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
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Accounting II
subject: Accounting
description: The development of accounting concepts and principles is closely related to the economic growth of the United States, as businesses grew in size, and outsiders increased their demand for financial information. Accounting principles focus on the users of accounting information. Principles have developed over a long period of time, and are continuously subject to revision as information needs change. It is the responsibility of accounting professionals, teachers and accounting organizations to keep accounting principles up-to-date, relevant and useful.
creator: John Petroff
publisher: Professional Education, Testing and Certification Organization International
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Accounting I
subject: Accounting
description: The purpose of accounting is to provide a means of recording, reporting, summarizing, and interpreting economic data. In order to do this, an accounting system must be designed. A system design serves the needs of users of accounting information. Once a system has been designed, reports can be issued and decisions based upon these reports are made for various departments. Since accounting is used by everyone in one form or another, a good understanding of accounting principles is beneficial to all.
creator: John Petroff
publisher: Professional Education, Testing and Certification Organization International
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Accounting Principles: A Business Perspective
subject: Accounting
subject: Business
description: Accounting Principles: A Business Perspective uses annual reports of real companies to illustrate many of the accounting concepts in use in business today. Gaining an understanding of accounting terminology and concepts, however, is not enough to ensure your success. You also need to be able to find information on the Internet, analyze various business situations, work effectively as a member of a team, and communicate your ideas clearly. This text was developed to help you develop these skills.
creator: Roger Hermanson
creator: James Edwards
creator: Michael Maher
publisher: BCcampus
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Microeconomics: Markets, Methods and Models
subject: Microeconomics
description: Microeconomics: Markets, Methods and Models provides a concise, yet complete, coverage of introductory microeconomic theory, application and policy in a Canadian and global environment. Our beginning is orthodox: we explain and develop the standard tools of analysis in the discipline. Economic policy is about the well-being of the economy’s participants, and economic theory should inform economic policy. So we investigate the meaning of ‘well-being’ in the context of an efficient use of the economy’s resources early in the text. We next develop an understanding of individual optimizing behaviour. This behaviour in turn is used to link household decisions on savings with firms’ decisions on production, expansion and investment. A natural progression is to explain production and cost structures. From the individual level of household and firm decision making, the text then explores behaviour in a variety of different market structures. Markets for the inputs in the productive process – capital and labour – are a natural component of firm-level decisions. But education and human capital are omnipresent concepts and concerns in the modern economy, so we devote a complete chapter to them. The book then examines the role of a major and important non-market player in the economy – the government, and progresses to develop the key elements in the modern theory of international trade. Opportunity cost, a global economy and behavioural responses to incentives are the dominant themes.
creator: Doug Curtis
creator: Ian Irvine
publisher: Lyryx
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Macroeconomics: Theory, Models & Policy
subject: Macroeconomics
subject: Economics
description: Macroeconomics: Theory, Markets, and Policy provides complete, concise coverage of introductory macroeconomics theory and policy. It examines the Canadian economy as an economic system, and embeds current Canadian institutions and approaches to monetary policy and fiscal policy within that system. The text observes short-run macroeconomic performance, analysis, and policy motivated by the recessions of the early 1980s and 1990s, the financial crisis and recession of 2008-2009, and the prolonged recovery in most industrial countries. A traditional Aggregate Demand and Supply (AD-AS) model is introduced, and a basic modern AD-AS model is developed. Numerical examples, diagrams, and basic algebra are used in combination to illustrate and explain economic relationships. Students learn about: the importance of trade flows, consumption, and government budgets; money supply; financial asset prices, yields, and interest rates; employment and unemployment; and other key relationships in the economy. Canadian and selected international data are used to provide real world examples and comparisons. This text is intended for a one-semester course, and can be used in a two-semester sequence with the companion text, Microeconomics: Markets, Methods, and Models. The three introductory chapters and the International Trade chapter (Chapter 15) are common to both books.
creator: Doug Curtis
creator: Ian Irvine
publisher: Lyryx
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Intermediate Financial Accounting Volume 2
subject: Financial Accounting
subject: Economics
description: This new text by G. Arnold and S. Kyle, developed in collaboration by Athabasca University and Lyryx, is intended for the second of two in Intermediate Financial Accounting courses. It presumes that students have already completed the Introductory Financial Accounting, and the first Intermediate Financing Accounting course. The text reflects both current International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and ASPE. This text covers all topics essential to a second level Intermediate Accounting course: current, long-term and complex liabilities, income taxes, pensions, leases, shareholders’ equity, earnings per share, statement of cash flows including the direct approach, effects of changes and errors, and disclosures and analysis. Topics that are covered in Advanced Financial Accounting courses, such as consolidations and foreign exchange, are not included here.
creator: Glenn Arnold
creator: Suzanne Kyle
publisher: Lyryx
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Intermediate Financial Accounting Volume 1
subject: Financial Accounting
subject: Economics
description: This text is intended for a first course in Intermediate Financial Accounting. It presumes that students have already completed one or two Introductory Financial Accounting courses. The book reflects current International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), such as IFRS 15 - Revenue from Contracts With Customers. It focuses on more difficult intermediate accounting topics that match prerequisite requirements for students advancing to a second level Intermediate Financial Accounting course. Advanced topics that are covered in Advanced Financial Accounting courses, such as consolidations and foreign exchange, are not included here. The text is written with an approachable style that focuses on key concepts that will be relevant to students' future careers as accountants. The book provides a review of Introductory Accounting concepts and covers all topics essential to a first level Intermediate Accounting course: the conceptual framework and current landscape of financial reporting; statements of financial position, comprehensive income, cash flows and shareholders' equity; cash and receivables; revenue; inventory; property plant and equipment; intangible assets; and intercorporate investments.
creator: Glenn Arnold
creator: Suzanne Kyle
publisher: Lyryx
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

What is Economy
subject: Economics
creator: Saylor.org
publisher: Saylor.org
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Managerial Accounting
subject: Managerial Accounting
creator: Saylor.org
publisher: Saylor.org
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Human Resource Management
subject: Human Resource
subject: Management
publisher: University of Minnesota
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

eMarketing The Essential Guide to Online Marketing 2th Edition
subject: eMarketing
subject: Online Marketing
creator: Rob Stokes
publisher: Quirk eMarketing
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

eMarketing The essential guide to marketing in a digital world 5th Edition
subject: eMarketing
subject: Marketing in a digital world
creator: Rob Stokes
creator: The Minds of Quirk
publisher: Quirk eMarketing
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

eMarketing The essential guide to digital marketing 4th Edition
subject: eMarketing
subject: Digital marketing
creator: Rob Stokes
publisher: Quirk eMarketing
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Business and Finance
subject: Business and Finance
description: Theme: ‘Creating futures: Sustainable economies?’ Purpose: To share continuous and collaborative research outputs that review existing strategies and to propose mechanisms for the likely achievement of a sustainable economy that is unique but inclusive to different entities in the world. Target audience: This year’s 7th International Conference on Business and Finance (ICBF) continues its tradition of being the premier forum for presentation of research results and experience reports on contemporary issues of finance, accounting, entrepreneurship, business innovation, big data, e-Government, public management, development economics and information systems, including models, systems, applications, and theory. Editorial Policy: All papers were refereed by a double blind reviewing process in line with the South African, Department of Higher Education Training (DHET) refereeing standards. Papers were reviewed according to the following criteria: relevance to conference themes, relevance to audience, contribution to scholarship, standard of writing, originality and critical analysis
creator: Michael Twum-Darko,
creator: Mamorena Matsoso,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: AOSIS, Durbanville, South Africa
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Die Welt der Commons : Muster gemeinsamen Handelns
description: The logic of capitalism is that of dividing and sharing. Only that in capitalism, people do not share, but rather, they themselves are divided up. For this reason, the British historian E.P. Thompson claims that »it was always a problem to explain the commons with capitalist categories«. Whoever enters into the world of the commons encounters another logic, another language and other categories. In this volume, authors from all continents investigate the anthropological foundations of the commons, and propose them at the same time as concrete utopias (E. Bloch). They make it possible to understand that everything is, or can become, commons: through processes of shared responsibility, in laboratories for self-organization and through freedom in solidarity. Commoners realize that which is already possible today, and will become obvious tomorrow. This is shown by over 40 examples from across the world. This book expands our notions of the possible when it comes to the organization of economics and society. With contributions by Nigel Gibson, Marianne Gronemeyer, Helmut Leitner, Etienne Le Roy, Andreas Weber, Rosa Luxemburg, Anne Salmond, David Sloan Wilson and more.
creator: Silke Helfrich
creator: David Bollier,
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

International Trade: Theory and Policy
subject: International Trade
subject: Economics
publisher: Saylor
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

eMarketing The Essential Guide to Online Marketing
subject: Online Marketing
subject: Economics
creator: Rob Stokes
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Taxation and the Financial Crisis
subject: Economics,
subject: Finance
subject: Business and management
description: The financial crisis has opened up a global debate on the taxation of the financial sector. A number of international policy initiatives, most notably by the G20, have called for major changes in the tax treatment of financial institutions and transactions as well as individuals working in the financial sector. This book examines how tax policies contributed to the financial crisis and whether taxation can play a role in the reform efforts under way to establish a sounder and safer financial system. The book looks at the pros and cons of various tax initiatives, including limiting the tax advantages to debt financing, special taxes on the financial sector and financial transactions taxes.
creator: Julian S. Alworth
creator: Giampaolo Arachi
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

International Political Economy – An Introduction to Approaches, Regimes, and Issues
subject: International Political Economy
subject: Approaches, Regimes, and Issues
subject: Economics
creator: Timothy C. Lim, Ph.D.
publisher: The Saylor Foundation
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Good Corporation, Bad Corporation: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Economy
subject: Global Economy
subject: Economics
description: This textbook provides an innovative, internationally-oriented approach to the teaching of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business ethics. Drawing on case studies involving companies and countries around the world, the textbook explores the social, ethical and business dynamics underlying CSR in areas such as: global warming, genetically-modified organisms (GMO) in food production, free trade and fair trade, anti-sweatshop and living-wage movements, organic foods and textiles, ethical marketing practices and codes, corporate speech and lobbying, and social enterprise. The book is designed to encourage students and instructors to challenge their own assumptions and prejudices by stimulating a class debate based on each case study.
creator: Guillermo C. Jimenez
creator: Elizabeth Pulos
publisher: Open SUNY Textbooks
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Cultural Integration of Immigrants in Europe
subject: Economics, finance, business and management, Economics, Political economy
description: The concepts of cultural diversity and cultural identity are at the forefront of the political debate in many western societies. In Europe, the discussion is stimulated by the political pressures associated with immigration flows, which are increasing in many European countries. The imperatives that current immigration trends impose on European democracies bring to light a number of issues that need to be addressed. What are the patterns and dynamics of cultural integration? How do they differ across immigrants of different ethnic groups and religious faiths? How do they differ across host societies? What are the implications and consequences for market outcomes and public policy? Which kind of institutional contexts are more or less likely to accommodate the cultural integration of immigrants? All these questions are crucial for policy makers and await answers. This book aims to provide a stepping stone to the debate. Taking an economic perspective, this edited book presents a current, comparative picture of the process of cultural integration of immigrants across Europe. It documents the main economic debates on the causes and consequences of cultural integration of immigrants, and provides detailed descriptions of the cultural and economic integration process in seven main European countries, including France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. It also compares the European context with the integration of immigrants in the United States.
creator: Yann Algan,
creator: Alberto Bisin,
creator: Alan Manning,
creator: Thierry Verdier
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: http://oapen.org/download?type=document&docid=453470
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Global Economic Prospects Broad-Based Upturn, but for How Long?
subject: Global Economic
description: The global economy is in a broad-based cyclical recovery. Investment, manufacturing and trade are on the rebound. Financing conditions are benign, monetary policies are generally accommodative, and the worst impacts of the recent commodity price collapse have begun to dissipate. However, the global economic outlook remains clouded by a number of risks. These include the possibility of financial market disruptions, rising protectionist sentiment, and heightened geopolitical tensions. Of particular concern is evidence of subdued productivity and slowing potential growth. In addition to discussing global and regional economic developments and prospects, this edition of Global Economic Prospects includes a chapter on the causes of the broad-based slowing of potential growth and suggests remedies. The report also contains Special Focus sections on the impact of the 2014-2016 oil price collapse and the relationship between education demographics and global inequality. Global Economic Prospects is a World Bank Group Flagship Report that examines global economic developments and prospects, with a special focus on emerging market and developing countries, on a semiannual basis (in January and June). The January edition includes in-depth analyses of topical policy challenges faced by these economies, while the June edition contains shorter analytical pieces.
creator: World Bank Group
publisher: World Bank Group
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Production Ergonomics: Designing Work Systems to Support Optimal Human Performance
subject: Production Ergonomics
description: Production ergonomics – the science and practice of designing industrial workplaces to optimize human well-being and system performance – is a complex challenge for a designer. Humans are a valuable and flexible resource in any system of creation, and as long as they stay healthy, alert and motivated, they perform well and also become more competent over time, which increases their value as a resource. However, if a system designer is not mindful or aware of the many threats to health and system performance that may emerge, the end result may include inefficiency, productivity losses, low working morale, injuries and sick-leave. To help budding system designers and production engineers tackle these design challenges holistically, this book offers a multi-faceted orientation in the prerequisites for healthy and effective human work. We will cover physical, cognitive and organizational aspects of ergonomics, and provide both the individual human perspective and that of groups and populations, ending up with a look at global challenges that require workplaces to become more socially and economically sustainable. This book is written to give you a warm welcome to the subject, and to provide a solid foundation for improving industrial workplaces to attract
creator: Cecilia Berlin, PhD
creator: Caroline Adams, MEng
publisher: Ubiquity Press
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Principles of Microeconomics
subject: Microeconomics
subject: Economics
description: Principles of Microeconomics has been developed to meet the scope and sequence of most introductory microeconomics courses. At the same time, the book includes a number of innovative features designed to enhance student learning. Instructors can also customize the book, adapting it to the approach that works best in their classroom.
publisher: OpenStax College
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

International Business
subject: Business
subject: Economics
description: Introduces you to the study of international business. After reading a short case study on Google Inc., the Internet search-engine company, you’ll begin to learn what makes international business such an essential subject for students around the world. Because international business is a vital ingredient in strategic management and entrepreneurship, this book uses these complementary perspectives to help you understand international business. Managers, entrepreneurs, workers, for-profit and nonprofit organizations, and governments all have a vested interest in understanding and shaping global business practices and trends. Section 1.1 "What Is International Business?" gives you a working definition of international business; Section 1.2 "Who Is Interested in International Business?" helps you see which actors are likely to have a direct and indirect interest in it. You’ll then learn about some of the different forms international businesses take; you’ll also gain a general understanding of the globalization debate. This debate centers on (1) whether the world is flat, in the sense that all markets are interconnected and competing unfettered with each other, or (2) whether differences across countries and markets are more significant than the commonalities. In fact, some critics negatively describe the “world is flat” perspective as globaloney! What you’ll discover from the discussion of this debate is that the world may not be flat in the purest sense, but there are powerful forces, also called flatteners, at work in the world’s economies. Section 1.5 "Ethics and International Business" concludes with an introductory discussion of the relationship between international business and ethics.
publisher: The Saylor Foundation
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Food Price Policy in an Era of Market Instability: A Political Economy Analysis
subject: Market Instability
subject: Economics
subject: Political Economy
description: Food price volatility is one of the major challenges facing current and future global food systems. Since 2006, global food prices have fluctuated greatly around an increasing trend and price spikes were observed for key food commodities such as rice, wheat, and maize. The full or partial transmission of these global food price changes to individual developing countries, together with domestic food price changes, caused by domestic factors such as extreme weather events and market disruptions, caused governments to respond in a variety of ways. While there is ample description of the nature, content, and causes of food price fluctuations during the last 5 to 7 years, very little is known about the processes that led to policy responses or the relative power and behaviour of the participating stakeholder groups. Understanding how and why governments responded as they did is important to enhance the existing knowledge of the political economy of food price policy and to assist governments in their policy-making as they confront future food price fluctuations. This book presents results from political economy studies of food price policy in 14 developing countries as well as the United States and the European Union.
publisher: Oxford University Press
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Financial Strategy for Public Managers
subject: Financial Strategy
subject: Public Managers
subject: Economics
description: Financial Strategy for Public Managers is a new generation textbook for financial management in the public sector. It offers a thorough, applied, and concise introduction to the essential financial concepts and analytical tools that today’s effective public servants need to know. It starts “at the beginning” and assumes no prior knowledge or experience in financial management. Throughout the text, Kioko and Marlowe emphasize how financial information can and should inform every aspect of public sector strategy, from routine procurement decisions to budget preparation to program design to major new policy initiatives. They draw upon dozens of real-world examples, cases, and applied problems to bring that relationship between information and strategy to life. Unlike other public financial management texts, the authors also integrate foundational principles across the government, non-profit, and “hybrid/for-benefit” sectors. Coverage includes basic principles of accounting and financial reporting, preparing and analyzing financial statements, cost analysis, and the process and politics of budget preparation. The text also includes several large case studies appropriate for class discussion and/or graded assignments.
creator: Sharon Kioko
creator: Justin Marlowe
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Finance, Banking, and Money
subject: Finance
subject: Banking
subject: Money
subject: Economics
description: The financial crisis of 2007-8 has already revolutionized institutions, markets, and regulation. Wright's Money and Banking V 2.0 captures those revolutionary changes and packages them in a way that engages undergraduates enrolled in Money and Banking and Financial Institutions and Markets courses. Minimal mathematics, accessible language, and a student-oriented tone ease readers into complex subjects like money, interest rates, banking, asymmetric information, financial crises and regulation, monetary policy, monetary theory, and other standard topics. Numerous short cases, called "Stop and Think" boxes, promote internalization over memorization. Exercise drills ensure basic skills competency where appropriate. Short, snappy sections that begin with a framing question enhance readability and encourage assignment completion. The 2.0 version of this text boasts substantive revisions (additions, deletions, rearrangements) of almost every chapter based on the suggestions of many Money and Banking instructors. Some specific highlights are: Chapter 11 now contains enhanced descriptions of recent regulatory changes, including Dodd-Frank, Chapter 12 is an entirely new chapter on derivatives covering forwards, futures, options, and swaps that also including comprehensive treatment of the causes and consequences of financial crises, and Chapter 14 has updated discussions of the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy tools, including paying interest on reserves, and the structure and leadership of the European Central Bank. Recent financial turmoil has increased student interest in the financial system but simultaneously threatens to create false impressions and negative attitudes. This up-to-date text by a dynamic, young author encourages students to critique the financial system without rejecting its many positive attributes. Peruse the book online now to see for yourself if this book fits the needs of your course and students. This textbook has been used in classes at: Augustan…
creator: Robert E. Wright
publisher: Saylor Foundation
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Exploring Business
subject: Business
subject: Economics
publisher: Libraies Publishing
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Entrepreneurial Cognition
subject: Entrepreneurial
subject: Economics
description: The topic of entrepreneurial cognition has fascinated us and motivated our research over the last two decades. Although this research has resulted in publications in the top entrepreneurship, strategy, management, and psychology journals, we thought now would be a good time to pause, reflect on our work, and bring these individual pieces of the puzzle together to provide a cohesive big picture of entrepreneurial cognition. This book is the culmination of our motivation to provide this big picture.
creator: Dean A. Shepherd
creator: Holger Patzelt
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

eMarketing the Essential Guide to Online Marketing
subject: Online Marketing
subject: Economics
description: This book may have my name on the cover, but in comparison to the enormous number of contributors my role has been minimal to say the least. I am largely the project champion. From the smart contributors in our early Quirk days and now the very brainy team at Red & Yellow, I have been very fortunate to have been able to convince these dedicated folks to give of their time to this exceptionally impactful cause. We have also been so grateful to have received enthusiastic input from great minds across our community and industry, which has just been a wonderful experience. These selfless people are too numerous to mention here, but I will heap them with the appropriate praise when we release the final copy of the book early next year. In acknowledgment of the massive impact our contributors have had on this book, for this 10th anniversary edition we have decided to go fully “open source”. Not only will the final book be freely available online for download, but we are also opening up this Beta version to our truly global audience, for comment and contribution. Instead of working with a fairly closed set of contributors, as we have traditionally done, we are now giving you, our educators, students or just general knowledge hounds, the opportunity to help us make this book even better. Each of these Beta chapters are available for download and comment. We want to hear from you on what you think needs to be added, changed or left out. What could we have explained better? What clever digital marketing tactic did we forget to include? What social platform needs more attention and ultimately how could we improve our book and its pedagogy to create an even better learning experience for our students?
creator: Rob Stokes
publisher: Quirk eMarketing
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Business Math
subject: Business Mathematics
creator: Jean-Paul Olivier
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Bioeconomy: Shaping the Transition to a Sustainable, Biobased Economy
subject: Bioeconomy
subject: Economics
description: Broadens your understanding of a sustainable economy Simplifies multidisciplinary approaches for the transition to a Bioeconomy Combining principles from agriculture, biotechnology and macroeconomics
creator: Nicole Gaudet
creator: Jan Lask
creator: Jan Maier
creator: Boris Tchouga
creator: Ricardo Vargas-Carpintero
publisher: Springer Nature
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

The Economics of Quarantine and the SPS Agreement
subject: Economics of Quarantine
subject: SPS Agreement
description: This collection resulted from an international workshop funded and organised by Biosecurity Australia, the agency of government responsible for analysing Australia's quarantine import risks and for negotiating multilateral SPS rules and less restrictive access to overseas markets for Australian produce. The workshop, which was held at the Melbourne Business School on 24-25 October 2000, brought together a distinguished group of applied economists and quarantine policy analysts whose focus involves regions as disparate as Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and New Zealand, in addition to Australia. The editors are very grateful to the authors for preparing, presenting and then revising their papers promptly following the workshop; to David Robertson for organising the venue and for summing up the workshop and the proceedings; to all the paper discussants and especially Richard Snape whose paper with David Orden (Chapter 10) was born and developed during the workshop discussion; to Jane Russell of Adelaide University's Centre for International Economic Studies for ably assisting the editors in producing this volume to a tight deadline; and to Biosecurity Australia for resourcing both the workshop and this proceedings volume.
publisher: University of Adelaide Press
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

The Economy as a Complex Spatial System Macro, Meso and Micro Perspectives
subject: Macro, Meso and Micro Perspectives
subject: Economy
publisher: Springer Nature
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

A Fair Share of Tax
subject: Tax
subject: Economics
description: Why do people pay tax? And why do they avoid doing so? There are many disciplines that try to answer these questions—economics, law, accounting, psychology. They use a wide variety of methods and come up with a similarly diverse array of solutions and theories which revenue authorities apply more or less successfully. Yet tax research is not only a contested field; taxation is for most nations and states a necessity for providing funds that finance infrastructure and services for their citizens. This book adds to the literature on tax ompliance by proposing an anthropological perspective, honing in on the reciprocal relations that tax, as with any exchange, can be seen to create. The book is based on ethnographic encounters—being and speaking with taxpayers, tax cheaters and tax collectors.
creator: Lotta Björklund Larsen
publisher: Springer
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Finishing Global Farm Trade Reform: implications for developing countries
subject: Economics,
subject: Business and management
description: This study reviews policy developments in recent years and, in the light of that, explores ways in which further consensus might be reached among WTO members to reduce farm trade distortions — and thereby also progress the multilateral trade reform agenda. Particular attention is given to ways that would boost well-being in developing countries, especially for those food-insecure households still suffering from poverty and hunger.
creator: Kym Anderson
source: http://oapen.org/download
publisher: University of Adelaide Press, Adelaide
contributor: Rika Zulfia
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

The Sustainable Business Case Book
subject: The Sustainable Business Case Book
subject: The Sustainable Business
subject: Business
description: The Sustainable Business Case Book provides readers with a broad overview of the core concepts of sustainability and sustainable business practice. It is intended for use in undergraduate business courses and will also be of interest to students in environmental studies, engineering, urban planning, and government. This book is not meant to exhort all business people on the path to sustainability enlightenment but to highlight some of the benefits, opportunities, and challenges associated with sustainable business practices. What distinguishes this book is that it provides a conceptual foundation to promote understanding of sustainability concepts and frameworks and also discusses real-world business examples of sustainability in action. It is believed that this is the best way to teach sustainability as it applies to the business world—a conceptual foundation with practical application. Sustainable business involves businesses operating with interest and concern for their long-term economic, environmental, and social impact. For-profit businesses focus first and foremost on their own economic bottom line, oftentimes, with a short-term perspective. However, with a sustainability perspective, businesses also consider a longer-term and broader triple bottom line that takes into account not only company profits but also environmental and social impacts. The economic, environmental, and social perspectives are increasingly interrelated and relevant for businesses.
source: https://www.saylor.org/site/textbooks/The%20Sustainable%20Business%20Case%20Book.pdf
publisher: The Saylor Foundation
contributor: Rahmah Agustira
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Business Plan Development Guide
subject: Business Plan Development Guide
subject: Business Plan
subject: Business
description: This textbook and its accompanying spreadsheet templates were designed with and for students wanting a practical and easy-to-follow guide for developing a business plan. It follows a unique format that both explains what to do and demonstrates how to do it.
creator: Lee A. Swanson
source: http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/BookDetail.aspx
contributor: Rahmah Agustira
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

International Finance : Theory and Policy
subject: International Finance : Theory and Policy
subject: International Finance :
subject: Finance
subject: Theory and Policy The International Finance
description: Preface Traditionally, intermediate-level international economics texts seem to fall into one of two categories. Some are written for students who may one day continue on in an economics PhD program. These texts develop advanced general equilibrium models and use sophisticated mathematics. However, these texts are also very difficult for the average, non-PhD-bound student to understand. Other intermediate texts are written for noneconomics majors who may take only a few economics courses in their program. These texts present descriptive information about the world and only the bare basics about how economic models are used to describe that world.
source: https://www.saylor.org/site/textbooks/International%20Finance%20-%20Theory%20and%20Policy.pdf
publisher: The Saylor Foundation
contributor: Rahmah Agustira
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Personal Finance
subject: Personal Finance
subject: Finance
subject: economics
description: This text has an attitude: that in addition to providing sources of practical information, it should introduce you to a way of thinking about your personal financial decisions. This should lead you to thinking harder and farther about the larger and longer consequences of your decisions. Many of the more practical aspects of personal finance will change over time, as practices, technologies, intermediaries, customs, and laws change, but a fundamental awareness of ways to think well about solving financial questions can always be useful. Some of the more practical ideas may be obviously and immediately relevant—and some not—but decision-making and research skills are lasting.
source: https://www.saylor.org/site/textbooks/Personal%20Finance.pdf
publisher: The Saylor Foundation
contributor: Rahmah Agustira
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Money and Banking
subject: Banking
subject: Money and Banking
subject: Economics
description: This book is designed to help you internalize the basics of money and banking. There is a little math, some graphs, and some sophisticated vocabulary, but nothing terribly difficult, if you put your brain to it. The text’s most important goal is to get you to think for yourselves. To fulfill that goal, each section begins with one or more questions, called Learning Objectives, and ends with Key Takeaways that provide short answers to the questions and smartly summarize the section in a few bullet points. Most sections also contain a sidebar called Stop and Think. Rather than ask you to simply repeat information given in the chapter discussion, the Stop and Think sidebars require that you apply what you (should have) learned in the chapter to a novel situation. You won’t get them all correct, but that isn’t the point. The point is to stretch your brain. Where appropriate, the book also drills you on specific skills, like calculating bond prices. Key terms and chapter-level objectives also help you to navigate and master the subject matter. The book is deliberately short and right to the point. If you hunger for more, read one or more of the books listed in the Suggested Reading section at the end of each chapter. Keep in mind, however, that the goal is to internalize, not to memorize. Allow this book to inform your view of the world and you will be the better for it, and so will your loved ones.
source: https://www.saylor.org/site/textbooks/Money%20and%20Banking.pdf
publisher: The Saylor Foundation
contributor: Rahmah Agustira
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Fundamentals of Business
subject: Business
subject: Economics
subject: Management
description: An introductory textbook in business that covers a variety of topics: The Foundations of Business, Economics and Business, Ethics and Social Responsibility, Business in a Global Environment, Forms of Business Ownership, Entrepreneurship: Starting a Business, Management and Leadership, Structuring Organizations, Operations Management, Motivating Employees,Managing Human Resources, Union/Management Issues, Marketing: Providing Value to Customers, Pricing Strategy, Hospitality and Tourism, Accounting and Financial Information, and Personal Finances.
creator: Stephen J. Skripak
source: http://solr.bccampus.ca:8001/bcc/file/ecd711cd-2008-4ff2-b850-a9fab31a4309/1/Fundamentals%20of%20Business%20%28complete%29.pdf
publisher: Virginia Tech
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Information Systems for Business and Beyond
subject: Information Systems for Business and Beyond
subject: Business
description: If you are reading this, you are most likely taking a course in information systems, but do you even know what the course is going to cover? When you tell your friends or your family that you are taking a course in information systems, can you explain what it is about? For the past several years, I have taught an Introduction to Information Systems course. The first day of class I ask my students to tell me what they think an information system is. I generally get answers such as “computers,” “databases,” or “Excel.” These are good answers, but definitely incomplete ones. The study of information systems goes far beyond understanding some technologies. Let’s begin our study by defining information systems.
creator: David T. Bourgeois, Ph.D.
source: https://www.saylor.org/site/textbooks/Information%20Systems%20for%20Business%20and%20Beyond.pdf
publisher: The Saylor Academy
contributor: Rahmah Agustira
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Basic Microeconomics
subject: Basic Microeconomics
subject: Microeconomics
subject: Economics
description: Archeological and written records of human existence suggest that obtaining the material means to satisfy wants has been a perpetual problem. Food and shelter are requirements of human life. Other goods satisfy a range of human desires and give pleasure or utility to individuals. The study of ways that humans deal with these problems of provisioning is called “economics.”
creator: Professor R. Larry Reynolds, PhD
source: https://textbookequity.org/Textbooks/tbq_reynolds_microeconomics_07.pdf
publisher: Boise State University
contributor: Rahmah Agustira
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Introduction to Financial Accounting
subject: Financial Accounting
subject: Accounting
description: Accounng involves a process of collecng, recording, and reporng a business’s economic acvies to users. It is oen called the language of business because it uses a unique vocabulary to communicate informaon to decision makers. To understand accounng, we ﬁrst look at the basic forms of business organizaons. The concepts and principles that provide the foundaon for ﬁnancial accounng are then discussed. With an emphasis on the corporate form of business organizaon, we will examine how we communicate to users of ﬁnancial informaon using ﬁnancial statements. Finally, we will review how ﬁnancial transacons are analyzed and then reported on ﬁnancial statements.
creator: Henry Dauderis
creator: David Annand
source: https://lyryx.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/DauderisAnnand-IntroFinAcct-2017A.pdf
publisher: Athabasca University
contributor: Rahmah Agustira
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Principles of Macroeconomics
subject: Macroeconomics
subject: Economics
subject: Principles of Macroeconomics
description: Welcome to Principles of Macroeconomics, an OpenStax College resource. This textbook has been created with several goals in mind: accessibility, customization, and student engagement—all while encouraging students toward high levels of academic scholarship. Instructors and students alike will find that this textbook offers a strong foundation in macroeconomics in an accessible format.
creator: OpenStax College
source: https://learn.saylor.org/pluginfile.php/34045/mod_resource/content/2/OpenStax-PrinciplesOfMacroeconomics.pdf
publisher: Rice University
contributor: Rahmah Agustira
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbook

Accounting and Financial Information
subject: Accounting
subject: Financial
subject: Information
subject: Accounting and Financial Information
description: Accounting is often called “the language of business” because it communicates so much of the information that owners, managers, and investors need to evaluate a company’s financial performance. These people are stakeholders in the business—they’re interested in its activities because they’re affected by them. The financial futures of owners and other investors may depend heavily on strong financial performance from the business, and when performance is poor, managers may be replaced or laid off in a downsizing. In fact, a key purpose of accounting is to help stakeholders make better business decisions by providing them with financial information. You shouldn’t try to run an organization or make investment decisions without accurate and timely financial information, and it is the accountant who prepares this information. More importantly, accountants make sure that stakeholders understand the meaning of financial information, and they work with both individuals and organizations to help them use financial information to deal with business problems. Actually, collecting all the numbers is the easy part. The hard part is analyzing, interpreting, and communicating the information. Of course, you also have to present everything clearly while effectively interacting with people from every business discipline. In any case, we’re now ready to define accounting as the process of measuring and summarizing business activities, interpreting financial information, and communicating the results to management and other decision makers.
creator: Stephen J. Skripak
source: https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/bitstream/handle/10919/70961/Chapter%2016%20Accounting%20and%20Financial%20Information.pdf
publisher: Pamplin College of Business and Virginia Tech Libraries
contributor: Rahmah Agustira
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbook

Project Management
subject: Project management
subject: Management Studies
description: This book covers the basics of project management. This includes the process of initiation, planning, execution, control and close out that all projects share.
creator: Adrienne Watt
source: https://opentextbc.ca/projectmanagement/
contributor: Cut Rita Zahara
rights: Creative Commons
type: Textbooks

Introduction to Economic Analysis
subject: Economic aspects
description: This book presents standard intermediate microeconomics material and some material that, in the authors' view, ought to be standard but is not. Introductory economics material is integrated. Standard mathematical tools, including calculus, are used throughout. The book easily serves as an intermediate microeconomics text, and can be used for a relatively sophisticated undergraduate who has not taken a basic university course in economics.
creator: Preston McAfee, Caltech Tracy Lewis, Duke University
publisher: Saylor Foundation
contributor: Elvira Nadya Saleh
rights: Creative Commons
language: English
type: Textbooks