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

Finance

  • OpenStax - Introduction to Business - 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.

  • BCcampus OpenEd - Fundamentals of Business - 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.

  • Open Textbook Library - Financial Management for Small Businesses - This book is for those whose financial management focus is on small businesses. For you, we adapt the traditional financial management themes emphasized in corporate financial management courses to meet the needs of small businesses.

  • MarkLogic - Keynote: Transforming Compliance with Digital Labor - In this keynote, Michael Henry shows how organizations address this growing area of interest by using KPMG’s Digital Labor Automation Platform (DLAP), built on MarkLogic.

  • Open Textbook Library - International Finance - International Finance Theory and Policy is built on Steve Suranovic's belief that to understand the international economy, students need to learn how economic models are applied to real world problems.

  • Bookboon - Strategic Financial Management - In a world of geo-political, social and economic uncertainty, Strategic Financial Management is under pressure.

  • ProQuest - The Corporate Finance Handbook - Corporate finance is central to almost every major decision a company takes but, because of its complexity, it is very little understood. This is a practical guide for hard-pressed CEOs and finance directors of the UK's middle market companies.

  • Saylor Academy - Financial Empowerment: Personal Finance for Indigenous and Non-Indigenous People - Financial Empowerment is designed for a single-semester introduction to financial planning and decision-making, in order to provide first and second-year students with the necessary financial literacy and skills needed to make sound financial decisions, assess financial risk, and achieve financial success.

  • Open Library Pressbooks - Financial Strategy for Public Managers - 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.

  • Thompson Rivers University - Financial Management - This OER contains 21 modules that can be used to teach various introductory and advanced finance management courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels either on campus, blended, or online.

  • OpenStax - Principles of Finance - Designed to meet the scope and sequence of your course, Principles of Finance provides a strong foundation in financial applications using an innovative use-case approach to explore their role in business decision-making. 

  • Pressbooks - Corporate Finance - 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.