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. It starts “at the beginning” and assumes no prior knowledge or experience in financial management. Throughout the text, Kioko and Marlowe emphasize how financial information can and should inform every aspect of public sector strategy, from routine procurement decisions to budget preparation to program design to major new policy initiatives. They draw upon dozens of real-world examples, cases, and applied problems to bring that relationship between information and strategy to life. Unlike other public financial management texts, the authors also integrate foundational principles across the government, non-profit, and “hybrid/for-benefit” sectors. Coverage includes basic principles of accounting and financial reporting, preparing and analyzing financial statements, cost analysis, and the process and politics of budget preparation. The text also includes several large case studies appropriate for class discussion and/or graded assignments.

Financial Strategy for Public Managers

Business & Money

Kioko, Sharon

Marlowe, Justin

Economics

Rebus Foundation

Media Innovation &amp; Entrepreneurship is a living, dynamic work built by a community of innovators. The textbook is an open, collaboratively written and edited volume designed to fill the needs of a growing number of journalism and mass communications programs in the U.S. that are teaching media entrepreneurship, media innovation, and the business of journalism to undergraduate and graduate students.
This resource takes students from ideation to financing, and covers the key concepts that media, communication or journalism students need to take a media innovation concept from idea to launch. 
This book includes chapters by Michelle Ferrier, Elizabeth Mays, Jake Batsell, CJ Cornell, Geoffrey Graybeal, Mike Green, Mark Poepsel, Jessica Pucci, Ingrid Sturgis, Betty Tsakarestou, a foreword by Jan Schaffer, and sidebars by Lori Benjamin, Dana Coester, Chris Dell, Dalton Dellsperger, John Dille, Amy Eisman, Francine Hardaway, Coury Turczyn, and Georgann Yara. Numerous others contributed to this book as editors, peer reviewers, beta testers, and beyond.
Chapters include: Developing the Entrepreneurial Mindset, Ideation, Customer Discovery for Content and Tech Startups, Business Models for Content and Technology Plays, Nonprofit Model Development, Freelancing as Entrepreneurship and Consulting as Business Models, Startup Funding, Pitching Ideas, Marketing Your Venture to Audiences, and Entrepreneurship Abroad.
This book has received and incorporated feedback from formal peer reviewers, open reviewers, and real students and faculty who tested the book in their classrooms. But even after our crowdsourced reviews, the text will never be a “finished” product. We will continue to provide updates and additions in response to user feedback and changes in the industry.
Rebus Community, a nonprofit building a new, collaborative model for open textbook publishing, provided extensive project support and helped us to find the many collaborators who contributed to the book’s development.
The book is free to students and faculty in multiple formats (Web/mobile, EPUB, PDF) at https://press.rebus.community/media-innovation-and-entrepreneurship/. Educators may remix and build upon this text.

Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Industries

Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Mind

Education & Teaching

Hendricks, Christina

Salazar, Heather

Schools & Teaching

We often make judgments about good and bad, right and wrong. Philosophical ethics is the critical examination of these and other concepts central to how we evaluate our own and each others' behavior and choices. This text examines some of the main threads of discussion on these topics that have developed over the last couple of millenia, mostly within the Western cultural tradition.The book is designed to be used alone or alongside a reader of historical and contemporary original sources, and is freely available in web and digital formats at https://press.rebus.community/intro-to-phil-ethics/. If you are adopting or adapting this book for a course, please let us know on our adoption form for the Introduction to Philosophy open textbook series: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwf2E7bRGvWefjhNZ07kgpgnNFxVxxp-iidPE5gfDBQNGBGg/viewform?usp=sf_link. Cover art by Heather Salazar; cover design by Jonathan Lashley. One of nine books in the Introduction to Philosophy open textbook series.

Introduction to Philosophy: Ethics

Politics & Social Sciences

Matthews, George

Philosophy

Introduction to Philosophy: Logic provides students with the concepts and skills necessary to identify and evaluate arguments effectively. The chapters, all written by experts in the field, provide an overview of what arguments are, the different types of arguments one can expect to encounter in both philosophy and everyday life, and how to recognise common argumentative mistakes. The book aims to reach not only those who wish to learn logic to further their philosophical education, but also those who wish to gain the tools to better understand how to approach arguments in many aspects of their lives.

Introduction to Philosophy: Logic

Smith, Nathan

Shaffer, Michael

Assadian, Bahram

Knachel, Matthew

Terra Rodrigues, Cassiano

Where did the universe come from? Is life a result of chance, or design? If God is loving and all-powerful, why does evil still exist? Is religious belief just a byproduct of undirected evolutionary processes? Or did God make sure humans would evolve in such a way as to believe? Are philosophers closed-minded about religion? And why is so much of philosophy of religion about God—but not about gods? Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Religion introduces students to some of the major traditional arguments for and against the existence of God. It also includes discussions of some less well-known, but thought-provoking arguments for the existence of God, and one of the most important new challenges to religious belief from the Cognitive Science of Religion. An introductory chapter traces the deep interconnections between philosophy and religion throughout Western history, and a final chapter considers what place there is for non-Western and non-monotheistic religions within contemporary philosophy of religion. Whatever your religious beliefs—or lack of beliefs—we think you will find many of the arguments in this book fascinating to think about, and useful starting points for deeper philosophical discussions.

Introduction to Philosophy: Philosophy of Religion

Branson, Beau

William Hunt, Marcus

D Knepper, Timothy

Sloan Lee, Robert

Steyl, Steven

Van Eyghen, Hans

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