Introduction

This textbook is the response to our students’ needs as communicated in our performance feedback (Thanks to you all!). Initially, it was dedicated to our international students on short-term student-exchange projects. At a later stage, we learned that a textbook on an introduction to finance, written in simple English, clearly presenting the most important topics but providing examples and space for more advanced knowledge development may be a desired textbook to be used as a reference for various finance courses or as a self-study handbook for users of financial analytics.
We planned this textbook to be:
“Practically referenced soft KISS”
Practical – focused on well-established high-level financial knowledge closely related to ...

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