Online university courses to upgrade the skills of aspiring professionals free of charge and open to all, serving businesses that employ them, universities that award degrees, and faculty that offer instruction. http://www.peoi.org/ en-us petroff@peoi.org petroff@peoi.org 2007-08-29 This course is a review of the fundamental concepts of accounting focusing on financial statements that a firm prepares each year, and describing how entries are recorded in accounts to capture all economic activity of the firm, and how accounts are organized and what transtactions are entered there. The course contains 11952 lines of text in 61 files. Student enrolment: 541. http://www.peoi.org/Courses/Coursesen/ac/AC101EN.html This course is a review of concepts of how accounting is designed to help management make its most important financial decisions, reviewing accounting methods for different business forms and analytical approaches for decisions related to operating costs, volume of production and investment. The course contains 15757 lines of text in 57 files. Student enrolment: 73. http://www.peoi.org/Courses/Coursesen/acc/AC102EN.html The core of the course deals with fiscal policies applying to taxation and government spending, and monetary policy affecting investments and currency value. The emphasis is placed on periodic setbacks in economic prosperity and the choice of policy tools to deal with them. The course contains 15649 lines of text in 91 files. Student enrolment: 220. http://www.peoi.org/Courses/Coursesen/mac/EC101EN.html This course deals primarily with the behavior of participants in various types of markets. Goals, attitudes and actions of users and providers of resources are studied. Emphasis is placed on potential harm of certain strategies and on corrective government policies. The concepts of the course are extended to international trade and finance. The course contains 17127 lines of text in 65 files. Student enrolment: 86. http://www.peoi.org/Courses/Coursesen/mic/EC102EN.html This is an advanced professional course intended for individuals working in banks, investment companies, stock brokers or large corporate finance departments. The course contains 101799 lines of text in 370 files. Student enrolment: 323. http://www.peoi.org/Courses/Coursesen/finanal/FN501EN.html This is an introductory course and covers the key features of the C language and its usage. The course contains 22418 lines of text in 60 files. http://www.peoi.org/Courses/Coursesen/cprog/IT151EN.html