Modern finance automation must be anchored in defensible accounting and economic principles. These references represent institutional standards taught at MIT, Rice University, and NYU Stern, freely accessible to any practitioner seeking rigorous foundations.
LEARNING RESOURCES · VETTED REFERENCES
Foundational benchmarks and open references.
A curated reference library of open textbooks, corporate finance lectures, and foundational curricula that ground practical finance systems in rigorous accounting theory.
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Vetted foundational courses & texts
R01 · MIT OpenCourseWare
Finance Theory I
Lecture videos, notes, problem sets, and exams covering valuation, markets, risk, capital budgeting, and derivatives.
Open reference ↗R02 · OpenStax · Rice UniversityPrinciples of Financial Accounting
A complete open textbook for financial-accounting foundations, available online and as a downloadable PDF.
Open reference ↗R03 · Aswath Damodaran · NYU SternCorporate Finance Online
Short-form class sessions with slides, post-class tests, solutions, and applied corporate-finance examples.
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