Open Educational Resources
Open Educational Resources are free to use and offer students access to hundreds of quality academic papers, journals and books to help in your studies.
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Accounting
ProQuest - Decision Making and Problem Solving - This textbook guides students to have an understanding of how the mind works and the principles of effective thinking. As well as being aware of the relation between decision making and problem-solving.
OpenStax - Principles of Accounting Volume 1 Financial Accounting - This book is specifically designed to appeal to both accounting and non-accounting majors, exposing students to the core concepts of accounting in familiar ways to build a strong foundation that can be applied across business fields.
OpenStax - Principles of Accounting Volume 2 Managerial Accounting - This book is specifically designed to appeal to both accounting and non-accounting majors, exposing students to the core concepts of accounting in familiar ways to build a strong foundation that can be applied across business fields.
ProQuest - Accounting for Non-Accountants - Provides the perfect introduction to the basics of accounting and business finance. It takes you through accounting and financial techniques and terms in an easy-to-follow style. Fully revised to include information on the latest accounting standards and changes in taxation law, it introduces concepts in a way intended to aid non-financial students, as well as managers from organizations of all sizes.
Open Textbook Library - Managerial Accounting - An online textbook focusing on Managerial Accounting.
Merlot - Accounting Principles - This comprehensive college-level publication covers all managerial accounting topics and contains extensive and detailed examples, self-tests, questions, problems, alternate problems, and answers.
ProQuest - Essential Management Accounting - Essential Management Accounting looks to bring the financial tools used by the biggest companies in the UK to the smallest, many of whom would undoubtedly see increased efficiency through the application of basic management accounting techniques. SMEs can benefit from the same analysis, planning and control tools as large multinational companies.
Management Accounting Concepts and Techniques - A Free online textbook about management accounting and its concepts and techniques
Open Textbook Library - Financial Accounting - This book is intended for an undergraduate or MBA level Financial Accounting course. It covers the standard topics in a standard sequence, utilising the Socratic method of asking and answering questions.
Open Textbook Library - Information Systems for Business and Beyond - In this book, you will be introduced to the concept of information systems, their use in business, and the larger impact they are having on our world.
Open Textbook Library - Principles of Financial Accounting - Principles of Financial Accounting is a needed contribution to open source pedagogy in the business education world. Written in order to directly meet the needs of her students, this textbook developed from Dr. Christine Jonick’s years of teaching and commitment to effective pedagogy.
Open Library Pressbooks - Accounting Principles: A Business Perspective – this textbook is mainly focused on managerial accounting.
University of Houston - Systems of Accounts – A textbook on hospitality accounting