Business

This exam assesses students’ knowledge of the world of business. The exam assesses students’
knowledge and understanding of economics and economic systems, ownership, risk, production, finance
and the financial system, marketing, human resources, how to form a union, and the effect of government
in business. Students will demonstrate their knowledge of the world of business and define and apply the
language of business to various endeavors.

This book is a cloned version of Introduction to Business (Candela): Faculty Resources by heather, published using Pressbooks under a CC BY (Attribution) license. It may differ from the original.

SBA offers online training programs, and development and growth opportunities designed to empower and educate small business owners.

This course hub website contains OER/ZTC (Open Educational Resources/Zero Textbook Cost) resources for faculty teaching Introduction to Business (BUS 104) at the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC). These resources are freely available for use by BMCC faculty and beyond. The BMCC Open Education Initiative is supported by the CUNY Office of Library Services (OLS) and funded by the New York State Department of Education.

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.

The goal of this textbook is simple: introduce students to business in an exciting way. Exploring Business is adapted from a work produced and distributed under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA) in 2010 by a publisher who has requested that they and the original author not receive attribution. This adapted edition is produced by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing through the eLearning Support Initiative.

Fundamentals of Business, fourth edition (2023) 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.