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The Most EXCELlent OER Spreadsheets Textbook Published (in 2025)
Marcus Lacher · Minnesota State Colleges and Universities · 2025
"The Most Excellent OER Spreadsheets Textbook Ever Published (in 2025)" by Marcus Lacher is a comprehensive and accessible guide designed to empower students and professionals with the skills needed to master Microsoft Excel. This textbook is meticulously crafted to be concise, effective, and cost-efficient, aligning with typical college-level business spreadsheets course outcomes without unnecessary content.
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Mastering Strategic Management
University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing · 2015
Teaching the strategic management course can be a challenge for many professors. In most business schools, strategic management is a “capstone” course that requires students to draw on insights from various functional courses they have completed (such as marketing, finance, and accounting) in order to understand how top executives make the strategic decisions that drive whether organizations succeed or fail. Although students have taken these functional courses, many students have very little experience with major organizational choices. It is this inexperience that can undermine many students’ engagement in the course. For questions about this textbook please contact textbookuse@umn.edu
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Beginning Excel 2019
Noreen Brown; Barbara Lave; Julie Romey · Open Oregon Educational Resources · 2017
This textbook was written for a community college introductory course in spreadsheets utilizing Microsoft Excel. While the figures shown utilize Excel 2019, the textbook was written to be applicable to other versions of Excel as well. The book introduces new users to the basics of spreadsheets and is appropriate for students in any major who have not used Excel before. This textbook includes instructions for Excel for Mac also.
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Fundamentals of Business
Stephen Skripak; Richard Parsons; Anastasia Cortes · BCcampus · 2018
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, Accounting and Financial Information, and Personal Finances.
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Money and Banking
Robert Wright · Saylor Foundation · 2012
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:Augustana
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Financial Strategy for Public Managers
Sharon Kioko; Justin Marlowe · Rebus Community · 2016
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.
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Fundamentals of Business
Stephen Skripak; Ron Poff · Virginia Tech Libraries · 2023
Fundamentals of Business, 4th Edition is an open education resource intended to serve as a no-cost, faculty-customizable primary text for one-semester undergraduate introductory business courses. It covers the following topics in business: Teamwork; economics; ethics; entrepreneurship; business ownership, management, and leadership; organizational structures and operations management; human resources and motivating employees; managing in labor union contexts; marketing and pricing strategy; hospitality and tourism, accounting and finance, personal finances, and technology in business. The textbook was designed for use in Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business introductory level business course, MGT1104 Foundations of Business and is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial ShareAlike 4.0 license. If you are an instructor reviewing, adopting, or adapting this textbook, please help us understand your use by filling out this form http://bit.ly/business-interest. A testbank is now available by request for this book: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/93404. The testbank covers chapters 1-18 and (currently) aligns to previous editions of the textbook. It is available to any instructor who has adopted Fundamentals of Business in their course.
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The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business
Terence Lau; Lisa Johnson · Saylor Foundation · 2011
Terence Lau & Lisa Johnson's The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business is a book for today's student, who expects learning to be comprised not only of substance, but also of interactive exercises and multimedia. This book streamlines the presentation of material to ensure that every page is relevant, engaging, and interesting to undergraduate business students, without losing the depth of coverage that they need to be successful in their academic journeys and in their professional careers. This is not Legal Environment of Business (LEB) ”light.“ Rather, this is LEB without risk of students' eyes glazing over in boredom or from lack of comprehension. This is LEB presented in an exciting way, where every page is interesting to students and relevant to real life. The authors recognize that the sheer volume of information to be covered in a LEB course makes it one of the more challenging courses for the business undergraduate. Not only do typical LEB texts read like the first year curriculum at law school, but also the LEB course is grounded in the humanities, which can make the subject even more demanding for students who are also taking statistics, economics, finance, and accounting. Each chapter contains not only substantive law, but also illustrative videos, interactive exercises for hands-on learning, and discussion questions for critical thought. Additionally, each chapter presents ”A Question of Ethics“ section, which contains real world ethical dilemmas relevant to the topic under study. These videos, exercises, discussion questions, and ethics sections all provide opportunities for students to apply concepts that they are learning in the context of relevant LEB topics that shape or restrain actual decision-makers' actions. It's real world practice in the safety of the classroom environment. Lau & Johnson's The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business is a textbook that students will enjoy reading. This will encourage them to come to class prepared, and fre
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Speaking of Culture
Nolan Weil · Utah State University
In the contents: 3.09: Accounting for common motifs
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Fundamentals of Business
Stephen Skripak et al. · Virginia Tech
In the contents: 17: Accounting and Financial Information
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BMT1010: Introduction to Business
L.P. Bassette, F.D. Gibson-Bailey, N. Park, C.L. Perry and D.M. Robinson · Prince George's Community College
In the contents: 13: Module Thirteen - Business Accounting · 13.01: Why It Matters- Accounting and Finance · 13.03: Introduction to Accounting in Business
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BUS 215: Introduction to Business
Brown · Cosumnes River College
In the contents: 07: Finance and Accounting for Entrepreneurs · 7.02: Overview of Entrepreneurial Finance and Accounting Strategies · 7.04: Accounting Basics for Entrepreneurs
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Small Business Management in the 21st Century
LibreTexts · LibreTexts
In the contents: 09: Accounting and Cash Flow · 9.02: Understanding the Need for Accounting Systems
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Introduction to Financial Analysis
Kenneth S. Bigel · Touro University
In the contents: 3.06: Perpetual InventoryAccounting · 3.10: Inventory Accounting Issues- LIFO · 3.12: Accounting for Long-term Assets- Straight-Line Depreciation (For Reporting Purposes Only)
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The Sustainable Business Case Book
LibreTexts · LibreTexts
In the contents: 11: Case: Accounting for Sustainability: How Does Timberland Do It and Why
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Leadership for Business
Jamie Hammond · Western Technical College
This text is designed to develop essential management skills and covers internal/external business environments, management functions, human resources, marketing, and accounting principles. As of early 2024, updated course outcome summaries for this specific class were under development.
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Business Fundamentals
Cornelius Brown and Hannah Wong · Cosumnes River College
In the contents: 06: Accounting and Finance · 6.01: Why It Matters- Accounting and Finance · 6.02: Accounting in Business
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Individual Finance
LibreTexts · LibreTexts
In the contents: 3.02: Accounting and Financial Statements · 3.04: Accounting Software-An Overview
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BUS-121: Principles of Money Management
Frank Paiano · Southwestern College
In the contents: 2.07: Accounting and Financial Statements · 2.09: Accounting Software-An Overview
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ECN-1050: Principles of Microeconomics
Prince George's Community College
In the contents: 7.02: Explicit and Implicit Costs and Accounting and Economic Profit