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.

Make sure you have your ProQuest login details to hand. These can be found on Blackboard. Also, note you will be required to create a BookBoon account to access and download the textbooks.

Any questions or issues please contact our Librarian Luke Privitera - LPrivitera@holmes.edu.au

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.

  • Lyryx - Introduction to Financial Accounting - The textbook focuses on core introductory financial accounting topics that match pre-requisite requirements for students advancing to Intermediate Financial Accounting. Excluded are advanced topics that are covered in Intermediate Financial Accounting, such as leases and bond amortization.

  • Lyryx - Intermediate Financial Accounting Volume 1 - This textbook 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. For those requiring preparation for CPA designation, competencies as outlined by the CPA are addressed in this textbook.

  • Lyryx - Intermediate Financial Accounting Volume 2 - This textbook 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.

  • 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.

  • Bookboon - An Introduction to Accounting Theory - The book aims to develop the readers' ability to think critically about accounting. Accounting theory is covered succinctly and clearly, including all new developments such as integrated accounting.

  • 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.

  • Bookboon - Business Information Systems - This textbook provides an overview of business information systems and provides definitions for the different systems used in companies.

  • 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

  • Charles Darwin University Australia - Who's Counting? - This book is designed to introduce you to the world of accounting. After completing the videos and interactive resources contained in this book, you will have the foundational knowledge necessary to discuss principles of accounting and prepare basic financial statements.