Professional English in Use: Finance

Задължителен справочник за работещите в сферата на финансите. В 50 урока са представени всички аспекти на финансовата лексика от счетоводство до заеми, от банкиране до джойнтвенчър. Книгата е идеален помощник при подготовка за сертификатния изпит Cambridge ICFE.
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Учебната система "Professional English in Use" съдържа помагалата:

• Finance
• ICT
• Law
• Marketing
• Medicine
• Management
• Engineering

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Introduction
Basic terms

• Money and income
• Currency
• Personal finance
• Business finance
• Capital
• Revenue
• Financial statements

Accounting

• Accounting and accountancy
• Accounting
• Auditing
• Laws, rules and standards
• Bookkeeping
• Double-entry bookkeeping
• Day books and ledgers
• Balancing the books
• Company law 1
• Partnerships
• Limited liability
• Founding companies
• Company law 2
• Private and public companies
• AGMs
• Accounting policies and standards
• Valuation and measurement
• Historical cost and inflation accounting
• Accounting assumptions and principles
• Assumptions
• Principles
• Depreciation and amortization
• Fixed assets
• Valuation
• Depreciation systems
• Auditing
• Internal auditing
• External auditing
• Irregularities
• The balance sheet 1
• Assets, liabilities and capital
• Shareholders' equity
• The balance sheet 2: assets
• Fixed and current assets
• Valuation
• Tangible and intangible assets
• The balance sheet 3: liabilities
• Liabilities
• Accrued expenses
• Shareholders' equity on the balance sheet
• The other financial statements
• The profit and loss account
• The cash flow statement
• Financial ratios 1
• Types of financial ratio
• Liquidity and solvency ratios
• Earnings and dividends
• Financial ratios 2
• Profitability
• Leverage
• Cost accounting
• Direct and indirect costs
• Fixed and variable costs
• Breakeven analysis
• Pricing
• Manufacturers' pricing strategies
• Retail pricing strategies

Banking

• Personal banking
• Current accounts
• Banking products and services
• E-banking
• Commercial and retail banking
• Commercial and retail banks
• Credit
• Loans and risks
• Financial institutions
• Types of financial institution
• Deregulation
• Specialized banks
• Investment banking
• Raising capital
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Consulting and research
• Central banking
• The functions of central banks
• The central bank and the commercial banks
• Central banks and exchange rates
• Interest rates
• Interest rates and monetary policy
• Different interest rates
• Money markets
• The money markets
• Common money market instruments
• Repos
• Islamic banking
• Interest-free banking
• Types of accounts
• Leasing and short-term loans
• Money supply and control 60
• Measuring money
• Changing the money supply
• Monetarism

Corporative Finance

• Venture capital
• Raising capital
• Return on capital
• Stocks and shares 1
• Stocks, shares and equities
• Going public
• Ordinary and preference shares
• Stocks and shares 2
• Buying and selling shares
• New share issues
• Categories of stocks and shares
• Shareholders
• Investors
• Dividends and capital gains
• Speculators
• Share prices
• Influences on share prices
• Predicting prices
• Types of risks
• Bonds
• Government and corporate bonds
• Prices and yields
• Other types of bonds
• Futures
• Commodity futures
• Financial futures
• Derivatives
• Options
• In-the-money and out-of-the-money
• Warrants and swaps
• Asset management
• Allocating and diversifying assets
• Types of investor
• Active and passive investment
• Hedge funds and structured products
• Hedge funds
• Leverage, short-selling and arbitrage
• Structured products
• Describing charts and graphs
• Increase and decrease
• Rate of change
• High points, low points, and staying the same
• Mergers and takeovers
• Mergers, takeovers and joint ventures
• Hostile or friendly?
• Integration
• Leveraged buyouts
• Conglomerates
• Raiders
• Financial planning
• Financing new investments
• Discounted cash flows
• Comparing investment returns
• Financial regulation and supervision
• Government regulation
• Internal controls
• Sarbanes-Oxley

Economics and Trade

• International trade
• Trade
• Balance of payments
• Protectionism
• Exchange rates
• Why exchange rates change
• Fixed and floating rates
• Government intervention
• Financing international trade
• Documentary credits
• Bills of exchange
• Export documents
• Incoterms
• Transport and additional costs
• The E and F terms
• The C and D terms
• Insurance
• Insuring against risks
• Life insurance and saving
• Insurance companies
• The business cycle
• Expansion and contraction
• Fiscal policy
• Monetary policy
• Taxation
• Direct taxes
• Indirect taxes
• Non-payment of tax
• Business plans
• Market opportunities
• The company, the product and the market
• The financial analysis
• Language reference
• Market idioms
• Numbers
• Word stress
• British and American vocabulary

Answer key
Index
Acknowledgements