Business Subject Guide

Students who take this course will learn how to analyze context and audience, determine purpose, message content, visual design, and media in order to write workplaces messages that can be received, understood, used, and retrieved with speed and accuracy.

Included in this course package is a course plan for instructors, which matches learning outcomes to assignments, provides sample assignments and weighting, and breaks down the course structure week by week with associated learning outcomes, learning skills, resources, learning activities, suggestions for showing care and building community, and assignments.

Other features of this course include an instructor guide that details all the components of the course and explains how to use them; a sample course syllabus; weekly lesson plans for students with notes for instructors; a suggested assignment package; weekly readings from an open textbook; interactive asynchronous lectures, provided in H5P, PowerPoint, and audio file formats; and participation activities, along with supplementary resources.

This course establishes business communication fundamentals such as delivering bad news, writing informational reports, creating persuasive messages, designing and delivering professional presentations, and preparing for employment searches. While this course has been designed as a distributed learning course, 6 mandatory synchronous sessions have been built in. Students will need between 7 and 10 hours per week to complete activities and assignments.

Included in this course package is a course map, which lays out the course week by week and describes each week's learning outcomes, readings, synchronous session requirements, activities, and assessments.

Other feature of this course include a sample course syllabus, which contains a workload breakdown, required materials and technologies, assignment description, suggested assignment weighting, discussion forum prompts, and a marking rubric; suggestions for a final exam; weekly student guides with activity checklists and learning outcomes; detailed synchronous session lesson plans; PowerPoint slides for synchronous lectures; and Word documents and PowerPoint slides with assignment instructions and examples.

The course includes supplement guides that are designed to meet the CPA competencies and to work in conjunction with any accounting textbook for Statistics. As an introductory Statistics course, much of the content is designed to prepare students for future finance courses that they will take in a business degree. Most of the course builds up to in-depth calculations of bond prices and net present value, alongside teaching repayment schedules. This treatment is given more detail in a later business finance courses, where students are asked to use greater analytical skills alongside technical math skills.

While the course is adaptable, this course was created as a way of easily using the “flipped-classroom” approach. In this approach, the instructor completes an example and the class is then given time to work through an example. Students share their work with their peers to compare answers (known as “Think-Pair-Share”).

Included in this course are an instructor manual, course supplement guides, practice questions, formulas, assignments, statistics charts, lesson plans, video tutorials and exams.

This first-year course introduces students to entrepreneurship as an approach to life and to creating their own careers. Through foundational concepts and frameworks, it examines entrepreneurship as a process, including forming an entrepreneurial identity, opportunity creation and evaluation, mobilizing resources, and growth.
The course is designed around the major stages in this process, and an overview of factors that are key to entrepreneurial success is provided.

In this course, students will learn to productively question the status quo, think creatively about solving challenging and complex problems, and innovate opportunities to create value.
Learning methods include peer reviews, discussions, and assignments focused on defining problems, innovative problem-solving tools, evaluating solutions, and defining success.

Materials for this course include lesson plans, case studies, instructor guides, weekly readings from an open textbook, midterm and final assessments. The course is set up to cover one case study each week. The course materials can be used to deliver the course in person, online or in a blended format.

This course was developed to address two primary gaps present in many introductory management courses:
Immediate application of concepts rather than a focus on high level theory AND Examples and cases that are applicable on a smaller scale, where most students in decision-making roles are, rather than focusing on large Fortune 500 business with hundreds or thousands of employees.

A collection of open courses and accompanying resources in the areas of business and money.

The Journal of Business Case Studies (JBCS) welcomes case studies designed for use in business and economics courses and articles related to the use of case studies in the classroom.

See the B.C. Open Textbook collection’s Business category for various textbooks relating to topics in business.

A collection of open textbooks relating to various topics on management.

Written from a Canadian perspective with H5P activities, this textbook contains material on personal and social identity; rhetorical listening; inclusive language; storytelling; and territorial Land Acknowledgements.

Written from a Canadian perspective, this textbook uses an integrated approach to the study and application of written and oral business communication.

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. For questions about this textbook please contact textbookuse@umn.edu

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.

A collection of open textbooks, assignments, and other educational resources relating to topics in business.

This open textbook is a comprehensive guide covering the three fundamental topics in Corporate Finance, including Capital Budgeting under Certainty, Capital Structure Theory, and Short-term Financial Management and Operating Leverage. In-depth explanations of topics and terms are provided as well as key illustration in the manner of problem sets and solutions, tables, and diagrams. Review problems are also included so that students can conduct self-assessments. This text will be continually updated in order to provide novel information and enhance students’ experiences.

This textbook addresses digital accessibility concerns and issues in business related workplaces.

This textbook focuses on Canadian business issues and concepts from a British Colombia perspective including diversity, equity, and inclusion opportunities.

The Fundamentals of Business (British Columbia Edition 2022) is an adaptation that highlights current business issues and trends focusing on not only Canadian content, but also adding the British Columbia perspective. The adaptation highlights equity, diversity, and inclusion opportunities in business practices. Additionally, this edition aims to celebrate the rich history and current opportunities of businesses that are led by Indigenous, Peoples of Colour, LGBTQIA2S+, and people with disabilities.

Open Technical Communication is a freely available, open sourced technical communication textbook developed under a Round 3 Textbook Transformation Grant and updated through several follow-up grants in later rounds of grants offered by Affordable Learning Georgia. It is a remix of the open-sourced Online Technical Communication textbook by David McMurrey, and it has been known under its original title, Sexy Technical Communication as well as its current title: Open Technical Communication.

A collection of case studies on Strategic Leadership written by graduate students in a Strategic Leadership course. Each leader comes from a different area of the strategic leadership spectrum: education, health care, business, non-profit, and Christian ministry. As such, these case studies explore strategic leadership from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds and experiences.