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Business Resources

When you prepare for your CLEP business exam, we suggest that you read the exam description for your exam carefully, and match the knowledge and skills required to any free course or study content.

The following resources, compiled by CLEP test development committees and staff members, may help you study for your exam. However, none of these sources are designed specifically to provide preparation for a CLEP exam. The College Board has no control over their content and cannot vouch for accuracy.


Financial Accounting Resources

Read the Financial Accounting exam description

Textbooks

  • Horngren et al., Introduction to Financial Accounting (Prentice Hall)
  • Libby, Libby, and Short, Financial Accounting (McGraw-Hill)
  • Needles and Powers, Financial Accounting (South-Western)
  • Phillips, Libby, and Libby, Fundamentals of Financial Accounting (McGraw-Hill)
  • Pollard, Mills, and Harrison, Financial and Managerial Accounting (Prentice Hall)
  • Porter & Norton, Financial Accounting: The Impact on Decision Makers (South-Western)
  • Pratt, Financial Accounting in an Economic Context (Wiley)
  • Reimers, Financial Accounting (Prentice Hall)
  • Rich et al., Cornerstones of Financial Accounting (South-Western)
  • Shim and Siegel, Schaum's Outline of Financial Accounting (McGraw-Hill)
  • Stickney and Weil, Financial Accounting: An Introduction to Concepts, Methods and Uses (South-Western)
  • Warren, Reeve, and Duchac, Financial Accounting (South-Western)
  • Werner and Jones, Introduction to Financial Accounting: A User Perspective (Prentice Hall)
  • Weygandt et al., Financial Accounting (Wiley)
  • Wild, Financial Accounting Fundamentals (McGraw-Hill/Irwin)
  • Williams et al., Financial Accounting (McGraw-Hill/Irwin)

Online Resources


Introductory Business Law Resources

Read the Introductory Business Law exam description.

Textbooks

  • August, American Business Law (Pearson)
  • Beatty & Samuelson, Introduction to Business Law (West)
  • Brown, Business Law with UCC Applications (McGraw-Hill)
  • Cheeseman, Business Law (Prentice Hall)
  • Clarkson, West's Business Law (South-Western)
  • Emerson, Business Law (Barron's)
  • Goldman and Sigismond, Business Law: Principles and Practices (Houghton-Mifflin)
  • Jennings, Business: Its Legal, Ethical and Global Environment (West)
  • Kubasek, Dynamic Business Law (McGraw-Hill)
  • Liuzzo and Bonnice, Essentials of Business Law (Richard D. Irwin)
  • Mallor, Business Law (McGraw-Hill)
  • Mann, Smith and Roberson's Business Law (West)
  • Mann and Roberts, Essentials of Business Law and the Legal Environment (West)
  • Miller, Business Law: Text and Exercises (West)
  • Miller, Business Law Today: The Essentials (West)
  • Twomey, Anderson's Business Law and the Legal Environment (West)
  • Twomey and Jennings, Business Law: Principles for Today's Commercial Environment (South-Western)

Principles of Management Resources

Read the Principles of Management exam description.

Textbooks

  • Bateman and Snell, M: Management (McGraw-Hill)
  • Griffin, Fundamentals of Management (Cengage)
  • Hill and McShane, Principles of Management (McGraw-Hill)
  • Jones and George, Essentials of Contemporary Management (McGraw-Hill)
  • Montana & Charnov, Management (Barron's)
  • Robbins and Coulter, Management (Prentice Hall)
  • Robbins and De Cenzo, Fundamentals of Management (Prentice Hall)
  • Schermerhorn, Management (Wiley)
  • Williams, MGMT (Cengage)

Principles of Marketing Resources

Read the Principles of Marketing exam description.

Textbooks

  • Armstrong and Kotler, Marketing: An Introduction (Pearson/Prentice Hall)
  • Bearden, Ingram, and LaForge, Marketing: Principles and Perspectives (McGraw-Hill/Irwin)
  • Boone and Kurtz, Contemporary Marketing (South-Western)
  • Etzel, Walker, and Stanton, Marketing (McGraw-Hill)
  • Kerin, Harley, Berkowitz, and Rudelius, Marketing (McGraw-Hill/Irwin)
  • Kotler and Armstrong, Principles of Marketing (Prentice Hall)
  • Lamb, Hair, and McDaniel, Essentials of Marketing (South-Western)
  • Lascu and Clow, Marketing Frontiers, Concepts, and Tool (Atomic Dog)
  • Perreault and McCarthy, Basic Marketing: A Global Managerial Approach (McGraw-Hill)
  • Pride and Ferrell, Marketing (Houghton-Mifflin)
  • Solomon, Marshall, and Stuart, Marketing: Real People, Real Choices (Pearson/Prentice Hall)
  • Zikmund and d'Amico, Marketing (South-Western)

You can broaden your understanding of marketing principles and their applications by reading articles in newspapers and business publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Harvard Business Review, Fortune, Ad Week, and Advertising Age. Journals like Journal of Marketing, Marketing Today, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Sciences, American Demographics, and Marketing Week can be found in most college libraries.