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Open Textbook Title<\/strong><\/td>\r\nPotentially Relevant Courses<\/strong><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/thead>\r\n
Business Communication for Success<\/td>\r\nCOMM 205<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Business Communication Skills for Managers<\/td>\r\nCOMM 205<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Communication for Business Professionals<\/td>\r\nCOMM 205<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Principles of Management<\/td>\r\nCOMM 205, COMM 210, COMM 222, COMM 226, COMM 320<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Management Communication<\/td>\r\nCOMM 205<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Writing for Strategic Communication Industries<\/td>\r\nCOMM 205<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Introduction to Business<\/td>\r\nCOMM 210, COMM 220, COMM 222, COMM 223, COMM 225, COMM 320<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Introductory Business Statistics<\/td>\r\nCOMM 215<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Introductory Business Statistics<\/td>\r\nCOMM 215<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Accounting Principles: A Business Perspective<\/td>\r\nCOMM 217<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Introduction to Financial Accounting<\/td>\r\nCOMM 217<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Principles of Accounting - Volume 1 Financial Accounting<\/td>\r\nCOMM 217<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Fundamentals of Business: Canadian Edition<\/td>\r\nCOMM 220, COMM 225, COMM 315, COMM 320<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Organizational Behaviour<\/td>\r\nCOMM 222<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Organizational Behaviour<\/td>\r\nCOMM 222<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Boundless Marketing<\/td>\r\nCOMM 223<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Core Concepts of Marketing<\/td>\r\nCOMM 223<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Introducing Marketing<\/td>\r\nCOMM 223<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Managerial Accounting<\/td>\r\nCOMM 305<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Principles of Accounting - Volume 2 Managerial Accounting<\/td>\r\nCOMM 305<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Business Ethics<\/td>\r\nCOMM 315<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Business Law 1<\/td>\r\nCOMM 315<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Good Corporation, Bad Corporation: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Economy<\/td>\r\nCOMM 315<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Entrepreneurship<\/td>\r\nCOMM 320<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Introduction to Entrepreneur<\/td>\r\nCOMM 320<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toolkit<\/td>\r\nCOMM 320<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Mastering Strategic Management \u2013 1st Canadian Edition<\/td>\r\nCOMM 401<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

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Business Communication for Success<\/a><\/h3>\r\nAdopted by many universities, this textbook provides a comprehensive and integrated approach to the study and application of written and oral business communication.\r\n\r\nIncludes<\/strong>: introductory exercises and in-chapter exercises\r\n\r\nMay suit:<\/strong> COMM 205\u00a0Business Communication<\/span><\/em>\r\n

Business Communication Skills for Managers<\/a><\/h3>\r\nThe text introduces important elements of successful communication, providing examples of effective communication and providing students with opportunities to practice the same. The text covers the essentials of communication including professional writing, visual aids, presentations, speeches, phone, online communication, and both getting hired and finding new hires.\r\n\r\nIncludes<\/strong>: videos, and end-of-chapter questions\r\n\r\nMay suit:<\/strong> COMM 205\u00a0Business Communication<\/span><\/em>\r\n

Communication for Business Professionals<\/a><\/h3>\r\nThis is an adaptation of Business Communication for Success (2013)<\/a>. It significantly reduced the size and scope of the original publication and added Canadian examples.\r\n\r\nIncludes:<\/strong> PowerPoint slides, essay questions, test bank\r\n\r\nMay suit: COMM 205 Business Communication<\/span><\/em>\r\n

Principles of Management\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\r\nThis OpenStax textbook takes a traditional approach to management, which is the leading, planning, organizing, and controlling approach. It covers many management areas such as human resource management and strategic management, as well as behavioural areas such as motivation.\r\n\r\nIncludes<\/strong>: instructor resources, student resources, PowerPoint slides, test bank, exercises, and questions\r\n\r\nMay suit:<\/strong> COMM 205 Business Communication<\/span>, COMM 210\u00a0Contemporary Business Thinking<\/span>, COMM 222\u00a0Organizational Behaviour and Theory, <\/span><\/em>COMM 226\u00a0Business Technology Management<\/span><\/em>, COMM 320 Entrepreneurship<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>\r\n

Management Communication<\/a><\/h3>\r\nThis textbook covers many skill areas of communication that allow us to manage communication in our professional life including writing, planning, organizing, building, researching, formatting, revising, managing, persuading, showing, presenting, branding, and working. The Chapters are organized in a manner that allows you to quickly identify the subcategories that match your objectives and outcomes.\r\n\r\nIncludes:<\/strong>\u00a0audience-centric questions, student resources, and videos\r\n\r\nMay suit:<\/strong> COMM 205 Business Communication<\/span><\/em>\r\n

Writing for Strategic Communication Industries\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\r\nThis textbook emphasizes the practical application of academic inquiry to help readers improve their writing skills. This book has straightforward chapters that use real-world examples to illustrate key points. It discusses different writing styles and techniques and provides examples of communication materials such as press releases, creative briefs, feature articles, and more. It includes embedded videos of insights from communication professionals, tips on pitching to the media, and a collection of popular sources for further explanation.\r\n\r\nIncludes: s<\/strong>tudent Resources, and video\r\n\r\nMay suit: <\/strong>COMM 205 Business Communication.<\/span><\/em>\r\n

Introduction to Business<\/a><\/h3>\r\nThis OpenStax textbook was developed by a number of business professors from various American institutions. It covers the contents of a traditional introductory business course.\r\n\r\nIncludes<\/strong>: instructor resources, student resources, applications, ethics activities, exercises, case studies, summaries\r\n\r\nMay suit:<\/strong> COMM 210 Contemporary Business Thinking<\/span>, COMM 220\u00a0Analysis of Markets<\/span>, COMM 222 Organizational Behaviour and Theory<\/span>, COMM 223\u00a0Marketing Management I<\/span>, COMM 225\u00a0Productions\/Operations Management<\/span><\/em>, COMM 320 Entrepreneurship<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>\r\n

Introductory Business Statistics<\/a><\/h3>\r\nThis OpenStax textbook has been positively reviewed and has been successfully adopted by other faculty. It covers introductory concepts in business statistics, from probability to confidence intervals.\r\n\r\nIncludes<\/strong>: instructor resources, student resources, applications, summaries, exercises, solutions, and group activities\r\n\r\nMay suit: <\/strong>COMM 215\u00a0Business Statistics<\/span><\/em>\r\n

Introductory Business Statistics\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\r\nThis textbook has been positively reviewed and has been successfully adopted by other faculty. In addition to covering basics such as populations, samples, the difference between data and information, sampling distributions, descriptive statistics and frequency distributions, normal and t-distributions, hypothesis testing, t-tests, f-tests, analysis of variance, non-parametric tests, and regression basics, etc.\r\n\r\nIncludes: <\/strong>interactive Spreadsheets, chapter summary\r\n\r\nMay suit:<\/strong> COMM 215\u00a0Business Statistics<\/span><\/em>\r\n

Accounting Principles: A Business Perspective\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\r\nA Business Perspective uses annual reports of real companies to illustrate many of the accounting concepts in use in business today. Gaining an understanding of accounting terminology and concepts, however, is not enough to ensure your success. You also need to be able to find information on the Internet, analyze various business situations, work effectively as a member of a team, and communicate your ideas clearly.\r\n\r\nIncludes: <\/strong>glossary of terms, and case studies\r\n\r\nMay suit:<\/strong> COMM 217\u00a0Financial Accounting<\/span><\/em>\r\n

Introduction to Financial Accounting<\/a><\/h3>\r\nThis text was written by a professor of accounting at Athabasca University and it is based on international accounting standards. This text has been successfully adopted and has been faculty reviewed.\r\n\r\nIncludes<\/strong>: instructor resources, case studies, student resources, practice problems, and solutions manual\r\n\r\nMay suit: <\/strong>COMM 217\u00a0Financial Accounting<\/span><\/em>\r\n

Principles of Financial Accounting<\/a><\/h3>\r\nThis textbook was developed by a professor of accounting at the University of North Georgia to better meet the needs of her students. This text has been successfully adopted and peer-reviewed by other accounting faculty.\r\n\r\nIncludes<\/strong>: exercises, and professional development resources\r\n\r\nMay suit:<\/strong> COMM 217 Financial Accounting<\/span><\/em>\r\n

Principles of Accounting - Volume 1 Financial Accounting<\/a><\/h3>\r\nThis 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 1 focuses on financial accounting.\r\n\r\nIncludes<\/strong>: instructor resources, student resources, PowerPoint slides, applications, exercises, and solutions\r\n\r\nMay suit:<\/strong> COMM 217 Financial Accounting<\/span><\/em>\r\n

Fundamentals of Business: Canadian Edition<\/a><\/h3>\r\nThis 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.\r\n\r\nIncludes<\/strong>: embedded quizzes with solutions, student resources, examples, summaries, and applications\r\n\r\nMay suit:<\/strong> COMM 220 Analysis of Markets<\/span>, COMM 225 Productions\/Operations Management<\/span>, COMM 315 Business Law and Ethics, <\/span>COMM 320\u00a0Entrepreneurship<\/span><\/em>\r\n

Organizational Behaviour<\/a><\/h3>\r\nPublished through the University of Minnesota, this text has been successfully adopted and has received positive reviews from other faculty. This text is meant to provide students with the necessary critical thinking skills, vocabulary, and framework to effectively navigate situations that may arise. This version is an adaptation of a former resource provided by a publisher. It includes an \"Organizational Behaviour ToolBox\" which incorporates an experiential component of understanding the concepts.\r\n\r\nIncludes<\/strong>: exercises, summaries, references, and organizational behavior toolbox\r\n\r\nMay suit:<\/strong> COMM 222 Organizational Behaviour and Theory<\/span><\/em>\r\n

Organizational Behavior<\/a><\/h3>\r\nThis OpenStax textbook aligns with introductory courses in Organizational Behavior. The text presents the theory, concepts, and applications with particular emphasis on the impact that individuals and groups can have on organizational performance and culture. An array of recurring features engages students in entrepreneurial thinking, managing change, using tools\/technology, and responsible management.\r\n\r\nIncludes: <\/strong>instructor resources, Student resources, Videos, and end-of-chapter exercises\r\n\r\nMay suit:<\/strong> COMM 222 Organizational Behaviour and Theory<\/span><\/em>\r\n

Boundless Marketing\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\r\nThe Boundless Marketing textbook is a university-level, introductory textbook that covers the exciting subject of Marketing. Boundless works with subject matter experts to select the best open educational resources available on the web, review the content for quality and create introductory, university-level textbooks designed to meet the study needs of students.\r\n\r\nIncludes:<\/strong> key terms\r\n\r\nMay suit:<\/strong> COMM 223 Marketing Management\u00a0<\/em>\r\n

Core Concepts of Marketing\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\r\nThis textbook demonstrates how companies use marketing. Provides specific examples in text discussions, chapter openers, the Integrated Marketing and Newsline boxes, and the end-of-chapter cases.\r\n\r\nIncludes:<\/strong> case study, and end-of-chapter questions\r\n\r\nMay suit: <\/strong>COMM 223 Marketing Management<\/em>\r\n

Introducing Marketing\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\r\nThis textbook provides how to determine and satisfy the needs of customers through products that have value and accessibility and whose features are communicated as the general purpose of any business. It is also a fundamental definition of marketing. This textbook introduces students to the marketing strategies, and tools practitioners use to market their products.\r\n\r\nIncludes:<\/strong> chapter summaries, glossary, and end-of-chapter exercises\r\n\r\nMay suit:<\/strong> COMM 223 Marketing Management<\/em>\r\n

Managerial Accounting<\/a><\/h3>\r\nThis 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.\r\n\r\nIncludes<\/strong>: exercises, problems, cases, spreadsheets applications, and group projects\r\n\r\nMay suit<\/strong>: COMM 305\u00a0Managerial Accounting<\/span><\/em>\r\n

Principles of Accounting - Volume 2 Managerial Accounting\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\r\nThis 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.\r\n\r\nIncludes<\/strong>: instructor resources, student resources, PowerPoint slides, applications, exercises, and solutions\r\n\r\nMay suit:<\/strong> COMM 305 Managerial Accounting<\/span><\/em>\r\n

Business Ethics<\/a><\/h3>\r\nThis OpenStax textbook covers concepts of introductory business ethics courses and has a particular focus on student learning.\r\n\r\nIncludes<\/strong>: case studies, applications, student resources, instructor resources, exercises,\u00a0 and solutions.\r\n\r\nMay suit: <\/strong>COMM 315 Business Law and Ethics<\/span><\/em>\r\n

Business Law 1<\/a><\/h3>\r\nThis OpenStax textbook is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of courses on Business Law or the Legal Environment of Business.\r\n\r\nIncludes<\/strong>: instructor resources, student resources, and exercises\r\n\r\nMay suit:<\/strong> COMM 315 Business Law and Ethics<\/span><\/em>\r\n

Good Corporation, Bad Corporation: Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Economy\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\r\nThis text was developed through the Open SUNY project by the State University of New York, specifically by professors of business. This text has been positively reviewed by faculty and has been successfully adopted.\r\n\r\nIncludes:<\/strong> instructor resources, case studies, external resources, exercises, applications, and examples\r\n\r\nMay suit: COMM 315 Business Law and Ethics<\/span><\/em>\r\n

Entrepreneurship<\/a><\/h3>\r\nThis OpenStax textbook is intended for use in introductory Entrepreneurship classes at the undergraduate level.\r\n\r\nIncludes<\/strong>: instructor resources, student resources, exercises, cases, and test bank\r\n\r\nMay suit:<\/strong> COMM 320\u00a0Entrepreneurship<\/span><\/em>\r\n

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Toolkit<\/a><\/h3>\r\nWritten by a business professor at the University of Saskatchewan, this textbook covers fundamental entrepreneurship concepts.\r\n\r\nIncludes<\/strong>: exercises, and end-of-chapter questions\r\n\r\nMay suit:<\/strong> COMM 320\u00a0Entrepreneurship<\/span><\/em>\r\n

Mastering Strategic Management \u2013 1st Canadian Edition<\/a><\/h3>\r\nThis Canadian edition includes Canadian-specific content, images, and references. It contains multiple graphic concept pages and real-world company examples in each chapter.\r\n\r\nIncludes:<\/strong> PowerPoint slides\r\n\r\nMay suit:<\/strong> COMM 401\u00a0Strategy and Competition<\/span><\/em>\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n
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