新编剑桥商务英语(高级)第三版5.1

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Money and finance VOCABULARY Money expressions

1 How do you interpret this quotation?

‘Money often costs too much.’

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essayist

2 Complete these flow charts. Use the words in the box.

1 borrow money →________ money→pay back money

2 _______ money→charge interest→make a profit

3 order goods →be _______ for the goods →pay for the goods 4 _______ money on a horse →win money→collect your winnings 5 _______ money in shares →earn interest→ buy more shares 6 go to the bank → ________ some money→spend the money 7 put your car up for sale→receive an offer→ _______ a deal

8 find a car you want to buy → negotiate a discount → ________ money 9 _______ business → make a profit →reinvest the profit 10 be short of money →take out a loan→_______ the loan

3 What’s the difference between the following?

1 win money and earn money

2 lend and borrow money

3 spend and waste money

4 costs and is worth ￡300

SPEAKING

A bank loan

4 Work with a partner. Take the roles of bank manager and loan applicant and act out the conversation. Look at the notes and plan what you are going to say.

LISTENING A culture of debt

5 Discuss these questions.

1 Is it easy to get credit in your country, for example, to

buy a house, a car, a new TV?

2 Is consumer confidence high at the moment? Why? /

Why not?

Exam Success 3 What is people’s general attitude to borrowing in your

country?

Your answer will be

exact word-for-word 6 You will hear part of a lecture given by an economist to phrases from the a group of bankers and economists. In it she describes listening text. They the impact of Alan Greenspan’s economic policy on must be spelt the US and global economies. A friend who can’t attend correctly has asked you to take some notes. Before listening

predict the kind of words that will go in each space.

7 Listen and complete the notes below. Use up to three

words in each space.

Business MAGAZINE

THE LEGACY OF ALAN GREENSPAN

The background

1 Alan Greenspan changed people’s attitudes to ________________.

2 People have been against borrowing money since _____________.

3 Now young people take out loans to pay their way through_________.

4 For many homeowners it’s normal to have a second _________.

The current lending market

5 Credit is easy and interest rates are_________.

6 Banks often lend money _________.

7 In some states it’s possible to get a Mortgagee with no ________.

Reasons for this policy

8 As long as people are spending,_________.

9 In Germany, in times of uncertainly people tend to _________.

The future

10 In 2005 American personal debt was_________________.

11 Some people say we are sitting on _____________.

12 Asset values will not continue to rise ______________.

8 Do you think a policy of borrow and spend helps the economy? Or

do you think sooner or later there will be a debt crisis?

9 Explain the following financial terms from the text.

1 to remortgage your home

2 to make a down-payment

3 asset values will crash

4 to be in negative equity

5 64 trillion dollars

GRAMMAR Expression of comparison

1 Underline the expressions of comparison and the adverbs /

prepositions that go with them.

0Warsaw is much 1 I find the train more comfortable than the bus.

2 Wal-mart is the biggest food retailer in the USA.

3 It’s not as expensive as you think.

4 The two articles present the same arguments as each other. 5 Hungarian is a different language to German.

6 Australian food is similar to New Zealand’s.

7 It took me less time than I thought it world.

8 The average American consumes twice as much energy as the

average European.

2 What word(s) could you add to the statements in exercise 1 to show that the difference (or similarity) is big? Use these words to help you (sometimes there is more than one possibility)

Warsaw is much cheaper than Oslo.

3 Make comparisons (differences and similarities) between the following. 1 you and another member of your family (father, mother, brother, sister, etc) 2 two cities you know well

3 two employers or teachers you have had

4 your own country and another country you have visited

5 two companies you have worked for or colleges you have attend

4 Read this article about energy consumption in the USA. Write one word to

fill each gap.

SPEAKING Choosing an investment

5 In the city where you live (180,000 people), two independent

cinemas have recently come up for sale. Both are in a popular

suburb of the city. The city has three other cinemas-a big

out-of-town mutiplex, a six-screen cinema in the centre of

town and a small independent in a different suburb.

The details of the two cinema are given below. Study the

information and decide which you think would be a better

investment.

6 Discuss your ideas with your partner, explaining your reasons.

Use the language box to help you.

VOCABULARY Company finance

1 What financial mistakes do you think small businesses most

commonly make? Work with a partner and make a list.

Not taking out insurance to cover the sudden loss of a senior /

key employee.

2 Put these words into the right place to make pairs of

financial terms.

1 income ___________ 6 dividends ___________ 2 assets ____________ 7 creditor _____________ 3 gross _____________ 8 profitable ___________ 4 current _____________ 9 accounts payable ______

3 Using the words in exercise 2 complete this passage from an

online guide for investors.

Understanding financial statements

To make good investment decisions, you need to understand the business you’re investing in. knowing when to buy and when to sell depends not only on

understanding the market in general but also the financial health of the company. Your first port of call: the annual report.

This contains the accounts-the balance

Sheet, the income statement and the cashflow statement. We’ll deal with just the important. With all financial statements, you must compare the sets of figures from recent years to see how the company is developing.

The balance sheet is a snapshot of a company’s financial position at a given moment. Imagine tomorrow you make a list of everything you own (including what in others owe to you)-house, car, money in the bank, etc. these are your (1) _______. Set against these everything that you owe-mortgage, credit card bill, etc. These are your

(2) _______. The two columns are what make up the balance sheet.

With a company balance sheet you also need to consider the shareholders’ equity (the shares owned in the company by others). The basic equation is assets=liabilities + shareholders’ equity.

The (3) _________ assets of a company are its buildings and equipment. As an investor you should pay particular attention to two kinds of current asset-the stock and the accounts receivable (money owed to the company by customers). If the amount of stock is growing fast, then it could be that stock isn’t moving. If the accounts receivable figure is large, then the (4) ________ aren’t paying their bills quickly enough. On the liability side look to see whether the debt, both short and long term, is increasing. Is the company borrowing more and if so, why? Read the notes to the accounts-maybe they will explain anything unusual. Look also at accounts (5) ______ to see if the company is paying its creditors on time.

The income statement (sometimes also called the profit and (6) _________ account) shows the company’s income and (7) ________ over a given period. It lists all the money generated by sales (the turnover) plus any other income, minus all the costs involved in running the business. This produces the gross profit that tells you if the business is healthy and operationally (8) _______ (9) _________ profit is the proverbial bottom line. It represents profit after tax and interest have been paid and is the amount that can be distributed to its shareholders in (10) _________ (though generally a part of this profit is retained for re-investment).

As you study the income statements of recent years, get out your calculator and do some sums.

Are sales growing? Are costs growing faster than sales or is the profit margin being maintained? What are the forecasts for future growth? Did any of the income come from the sales of assets?

4 What do these words and phrases from the passage on page

50 mean?

1 your first port of call

2 a snapshot

3 over a given period

4 the bottom line

5 do some sums

READING A financial summary

5 Study this financial summary of Tesco plc, Britain’s largest

supermarket chain. Find the following items.

1 the turnover

2 the profit made after tax

3 the value of the company

4 the cash still available after other investments

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