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Principles of Management∗
Anonymous (LibreTexts)
Last updated: 2020
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Principles of Management teaches management principles to tomorrow’s business leaders by weaving three threads through every chapter: strategy, entrepreneurship, and active leadership.
Formats: Online and PDF
Suggested for:
ADM 1100 and ADM 1300 Introduction to Business Management
Principles of Management∗
David S. Bright (Wright State University) et al. (OpenStax)
2019
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Principles of Management is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the introductory course on management. This is a traditional approach to management using the leading, planning, organizing, and controlling approach. Management is a broad business discipline, and the Principles of Management course covers many management areas such as human resource management and strategic management, as well behavioral areas such as motivation. No one individual can be an expert in all areas of management, so an additional benefit of this text is that specialists in a variety of areas have authored individual chapters.
Formats: Online and PDF; online LibreTexts version
Includes: Key terms, learning outcomes, chapter review questions, managerial decision exercises, managerial skills application exercises, and critical thinking cases
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
ADM 1100 and ADM 1300 Introduction to Business Management
Developing Organizational Managerial Wisdom∗
Brad C. Anderson (Kwantlen Polytechnic University)
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
This book presents the results of novel research into the dynamics of values, rationality, and power in organizations. Through this understanding, readers will gain insights and frameworks with which to understand the actions of others within their environment.
Formats: Pressbooks WebBook
Includes: Learning objectives, exercises, key takeaways, and chapter summaries
Suggested for:
ADM 2336 Organizational Behaviour
Business Plan Development Guide∗
Lee A. Swanson (University of Saskatchewan)
2017
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
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.
Formats: Pressbooks WebBook, EPUB, PDF, and MOBI
Includes: Checklist, project planner, and templates
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
ADM 2313 The Entrepreneurial Society
ADM 3313 New Venture Creation
Fundamentals of Business: Canadian Edition∗
Business Faculty from Ontario Colleges and eCampusOntario Program Managers
2018
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
An introductory textbook in business that covers a variety of topics: The Foundation 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, Management Human Resources, Union/Management Issues, Marketing: Providing Value, Accounting and Financial Information, and Personal Finances.
This textbook was developed by business faculty from Ontario Colleges and from eCampusOntario program managers. It incorporates introductory business topics, from ethics to marketing to entrepreneurship, in a Canadian context. It has received positive faculty reviews.
Formats: Pressbooks WebBook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and more
Includes: Embedded quizzes with solutions, test bank, slides, and essay questions
Reviews: eCampusOntario Open Library – BCcampus
Suggested for:
ADM 1100 and ADM 1300 Introduction to Business Management
Fundamentals of Business, Third Edition∗
Stephen Skripak and Ron Poff (Virginia Tech)
2020
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Fundamentals of Business, 3rd edition is an open education resource intended to serve as a no-cost, instructor-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, and personal finances. The textbook was adapted for use in Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business introductory level business course, MGT1104 Foundations of Business.
Formats: Pressbooks WebBook, PDF, EPUB, MOBI, and more
Includes: Learning objectives, exercises, and key takeaways
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
ADM 1100 and ADM 1300 Introduction to Business Management
Introduction to Business∗
Lawrence J. Gitman (San Diego State University), Carl McDaniel (University of Texas, Arlington), Amit Shah (Frostburg State University), Monique Reece, Linda Koffel (Houston Community College), Bethann Talsma (Davenport University and Grand Rapids Community College), and James C. Hyatt (University of the Cumberlands) (OpenStax)
2018
Licence: CC BY 4.0
This OpenStax textbook was developed by a number of business professors from various American institutions. It covers the contents of a traditional introductory business course. Introduction to Business covers the scope and sequence of most introductory business courses. The book provides detailed explanations in the context of core themes such as customer satisfaction, ethics, entrepreneurship, global business, and managing change. Introduction to Business includes hundreds of current business examples from a range of industries and geographic locations, which feature a variety of individuals. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of business concepts, with attention to the knowledge and skills necessary for student success in this course and beyond.
Formats: Online and PDF; online LibreTexts version
Includes: Key terms, learning outcomes, ethics activities, and critical thinking cases
Reviews: Open Textbook Library – BCcampus
Suggested for:
ADM 1100 and ADM 1300 Introduction to Business Management
Introduction to Business∗
SUNY Open Textbook Project and Lumen Learning
2017
Licence: Various Creative Commons licences listed at the end of each section and chapter
An open textbook developed by the State University of New York Open Textbook Project. It incorporates all of the concepts of a traditional introductory course.
Formats: Online
Includes: Discussion questions, assignments, and instructor resources
Suggested for:
ADM 1100 and ADM 1300 Introduction to Business Management
The Business Ethics Workshop∗
James Brusseau (Pace University) (Saylor Foundation)
2012
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.
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Formats: PDF
Includes: Learning objectives, key takeaways, and review questions
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
ADM 1101 and ADM 1301 Social Context of Business
Business Ethics∗
Stephen M. Byars (USC Marshall School of Business) and Kurt Stanberry (University of Houston-Downtown) (OpenStax)
2018
Licence: CC BY 4.0
Business Ethics is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the single-semester business ethics course. This title includes innovative features designed to enhance student learning, including case studies, application scenarios, and links to video interviews with executives, all of which help instill in students a sense of ethical awareness and responsibility.
Formats: Online and PDF; online LibreTexts version
Includes: Key terms, assessment questions, test bank, and slides
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
ADM 1101 and ADM 1301 Social Context of Business
Good Corporation, Bad Corporation: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Economy∗
Guillermo C. Jimenez (Fashion Institute of Technology-SUNY) and Elizabeth Pulos (Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production-WRAP)
2016
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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 such areas 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.
Formats: Online, PDF, and EPUB
Includes: Case studies, external resources, exercises, applications, and examples
Reviews: Open Textbook Library – eCampusOntario Open Library – BCcampus
Suggested for:
ADM 1101 and ADM 1301 Social Context of Business
Introduction to Financial Accounting∗
David Annand and Henry Dauderis (Athabasca University) (Lyryx)
Version 2021A
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
This textbook is an adaptation by Athabasca University of the original text written by D. Annand and H. Dauderis. It is intended for use in entry-level college and university courses in financial accounting. A corporate approach is utilized consistently throughout the book. The adapted textbook includes multiple ancillary student and instructor resources. Student aids include solutions to all end-of-chapter questions and problems, and randomly-generated spreadsheet problems that cover key concepts of each chapter. These provide unlimited practice and feedback for students. Instructor aids include an exam bank, lecture slides, and a comprehensive end-of-term case assignment. This requires students to prepare 18 different year-end adjusting entries and all four types of financial statements, and to calculate and analyze 16 different financial statement ratios. Unique versions can be created for any number of individual students or groups.
Formats: online, PDF, and EPUB
Includes: Case studies, practice problems, solutions manual, and additional resources
Reviews: Open Textbook Library – eCampusOntario Open Library
Suggested for:
ADM 1340 Financial Accounting
Intermediate Financial Accounting – Volume 1∗
Glenn Arnold and Suzanne Kyle (Athabasca University) (Lyryx)
Version 2020A
Licence: CC BY 4.0
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.
Formats: online, PDF, and EPUB
Includes: Case studies, exercises, and solutions
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
ADM 2342 Intermediate Accounting I
ADM 3340 Intermediate Accounting II
Intermediate Financial Accounting – Volume 2∗
Glenn Arnold and Suzanne Kyle (Athabasca University) (Lyryx)
Version 2020A
Licence: CC BY 4.0
This text is intended to be 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.
Formats: online, PDF, and EPUB
Includes: Case studies, exercises, and solutions
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
ADM 2342 Intermediate Accounting I
ADM 3340 Intermediate Accounting II
Principles of Managerial Accounting∗
Christine Jonick (University of North Georgia)
2017
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
A textbook on managerial accounting, peer-reviewed by academic professionals and tested by students.
Formats: PDF
Includes: Over 100 charts and graphs, instructional exercises in-text and for Excel, and resources for student professional development
Suggested for:
ADM 2341 Managerial Accounting
Managerial Accounting∗
Kurt Heisinger (Sierra College) and Joe Hoyle (University of Richmond) (Saylor Foundation)
2012
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
This textbook focuses on the essential managerial accounting concepts used within organizations for decision-making purposes and covers these concepts in 13 straightforward and concise chapters.
Formats: Online and PDF
Includes: Exercises, problems, cases, spreadsheets applications, and group projects
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
ADM 2341 Managerial Accounting
Principles of Accounting – Volume 2 Managerial Accounting∗
Patty Graybeal (University of Michigan-Dearborn), Mitchell Franklin (LeMoyne College), and Dixon Cooper (Ouachita Baptist University) (OpenStax)
2019
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
This OpenStax textbook exposes students to the core concepts of accounting in familiar ways to build a strong foundation that can be applied across business fields. Volume 2 focuses on managerial accounting.
Formats: Online and PDF; online LibreTexts version
Includes: Instructor resources, student resources, PowerPoint slides, applications, exercises, and solutions.
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
Suggested for:
ADM 2341 Managerial Accounting
Business Math: A Step-by-Step Handbook∗
Jean-Paul Olivier (Red Deer College) (Lyryx)
Latest version: 2021-revision A
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Business Mathematics was written to meet the needs of a twenty-first-century student. It takes a systematic approach to help students learn how to think and centers on a structured process termed the PUPP Model (Plan, Understand, Perform, and Present). This process is found throughout the text and in every guided example to help students develop a step-by-step problem-solving approach.
This textbook simplifies and integrates annuity types and variable calculations, utilizes relevant algebraic symbols, and is integrated with the Texas Instruments BAII+ calculator. It also contains structured exercises, annotated and detailed formulas, and relevant personal and professional applications in discussion, guided examples, case studies, and even homework questions.
Formats: PDF
Includes: Excel templates, solutions to cases and exercises, online homework problems, and instructor supplements
Reviews: BCcampus
Suggested for:
ADM 1100 and ADM 1300 Introduction to Business Management
Business Computers 365∗
Marcus Lacher (Minnesota State Community & Technical College)
2019
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Intro to Computer Applications or Business Computers for Office 365.
Formats: Pressbooks WebBooks and PDF
Suggested for:
ADM 1370 Applications of Information Technology for Business [as supplementary resource]
Communication for Business Professionals – Canadian Edition∗
Ontario Business Faculty and eCampusOntario Program Managers
2018
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
This book provides a comprehensive, integrated approach to the study and application of written and oral business communication to serve both student and professor. The text includes a number of features such as learning objectives, exercises, real-world examples, key terms, and post-chapter assessments. This text is adapted from Business Communication for Success. This 2018 adaptation has significantly reduced the size and scope of the original publication and added Canadian examples.
Formats: Pressbooks WebBook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and more
Includes: Instructor slides, essay questions, and test bank (under Additional Resources)
Suggested for:
ADM 2381 Business Communications Skills
Business Communication for Success∗
University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
2015
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Business Communication for Success (BCS) provides a comprehensive, integrated approach to the study and application of written and oral business communication to serve both student and professor.
Formats: Pressbooks WebBook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and more
Includes: Learning objectives, introductory exercises, key takeaways, in-chapter assignments, and post-chapter assessments
Reviews: Open Textbook Library – BCcampus
Suggested for:
ADM 2381 Business Communications Skills
MBA Program (MBA) and Executive MBA Program (ADX)
Accounting in the Finance World∗
Anonymous (LibreTexts)
Last updated: December 2020
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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. Note: Supplement with information about differences between IFRS and US GAAP.
Formats: Online and PDF
Includes: End of chapter exercises, examples, embedded videos, and summaries
Suggested for:
MBA 5140 Financial Accounting Information and Decisions I
MBA 5141 Financial Accounting Information and Decisions II
MBA 5340 Financial Accounting Information and Decisions
ADX 5240 Financial Accounting Information and Decisions
