Accounting: Introductory Accounting Concepts

A crash course in basic accounting. This electronic book can be downloaded.

Time Value of Money is an online course designed to help students in economics, math and personal finance classes through what is often dry, mathematical content by featuring student-oriented language, program interactions, checks for understanding and video. This course will enhance students' in-class study of present and future value and also serve as a tutorial for those students who struggle with the concepts

A dollar you have today is worth more than a dollar tomorrow. The reason is that you could invest the dollar now and have more than a dollar at the specified later date. The longer it takes to get $1, the less it is worth today because you are losing interest on that money. Time value of money is a critical consideration in business and economic decisions. (Excerpted from Dictionary of Economics)

Roychowdhury, Sugata. 15.501 Introduction to Financial and Managerial Accounting,Spring 2004. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare), http://ocw.mit.edu (Accessed 22 Apr, 2013). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

Weber, Joseph. 15.521 Management Accounting and Control,Spring 2003. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare), http://ocw.mit.edu (Accessed 22 Apr, 2013). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

Five brief videos that cover a variety of personal finance topics.