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Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting
Money & Business

Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting

...resources belonging to a business. Assets could be money in a cash register or bank account, or items such as property, fixtures and furniture, equipment, motor vehicles, and stock or goods for resale. An important asset in businesses which sell goods or services on credit is money owed to the enterprise by customers. This asset is known as debtors. Capital is the value...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Aquatic mammals
Nature & Environment

Aquatic mammals

...opened up new habitats and new sources of food that the mammals were quick to exploit. Question 1 Timing: Allow about 5 minutes Using your general knowledge of mammals, try describing up to three biological features that mammals commonly possess. Discussion Mammals are distinguished by: the production of milk the possession of hair or similar structures, such as bristles...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introduction to complex analysis
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to complex analysis

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Session 2: Integration: Introduction to integration - This session introduces complex integration, an important concept which gives complex analysis its special flavour. We spend most of this session setting up the complex integral, deriving its main properties, and...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy
History & The Arts

Imagination: The missing mystery of philosophy

...Soul, 1831–2. By permission of The British Library (C.43.d.25) By permission of The British Library (C.43.d.25). Don't miss out: If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Egyptian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Egyptian mathematics

...opening words were, in Chace's free translation, ‘Accurate reckoning. The entrance into the knowledge of all existing things and all obscure secrets’, which is interesting, but does not really clarify for us whether this kind of thing was taught to schoolchildren, or whether the Rhind Papyrus represented quite an advanced theoretical work by Egyptian standards. In...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs
Biofuels
Science, Maths & Technology

Biofuels

...open fire and electricity for lighting. The chances are that the electricity you use was generated by burning coal or from nuclear power...Biofuels: 2 Energy from plants and climate change - Plants capture carbon dioxide (CO2) during photosynthesis and store it in their tissues in a variety of carbon compounds (including both carbohydrates and oils). These are often...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
A brief history of evolution
History & The Arts

A brief history of evolution

...Open University's Natural Sciences qualifications. Evolutionary concepts first appeared in early Greek writings, for example, in the work of Anaximander and Empedocles. Anaximander proposed that animals could be transformed from one kind to another, and Empedocles speculated that they could be made up of various combinations of pre-existing parts. However, evolutionary...
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Article 30 mins
Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around

...overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs