1. Cash on the nail! roared the proprietor.
2. These supplies could be financed for the time being, a matter of a few months, on the cash and carry basis.
3. After an honorable and fruitful career he cashed in his chips at the age of ninety years.
4. It was time to take stock of the situation.
5. He gave me a stock answer.
6. You stock and stone! exclaimed the woman. You cold, cold heart!
7. The company wants to protect their product designs at all costs.
8. A good manager should count the cost before taking a decision.
9. It cost him a pretty penny.
10. After the company announced plans to reduce benefits, the union threatened to return like for like.
11. His behavior means that he has returned to former practices.
12. He turned his back on us rather abruptly and returned to his muttons.
Use a Business English-Russian dictionary to translate the following expressions into Russian. Make up sentences of your own with them.
Return cargo; return fare; return on equities; return to scale; joint return; marginal return; net cash return s; return of capital; rate of return; submission of return s; tax return.
10. Choose the best answer.
Financial analysis
Within the firm, (1)_______ analysis may be used not only to evaluate the (2)_______ of the firm, but also its (3)_______ or departments and its product lines. (4)_______ may be performed both periodically (5)_______ as needed, not only to ensure informed investing and financing decisions, but also as an (6)_______ in implementing personnel policies and (7)_______ systems.
Outside the firm, financial analysis may be used to (8)_______ the (9)_______ of a new customer, to evaluate the ability of a supplier to hold to the conditions of a (10)_______ contract, and to evaluate the market performance of competitors.
| 1 | A | finances | B | financial | C | financing |
| 2 | A | performance | B | perfection | C | functioning |
| 3 | A | divisions | B | dividends | C | divergences |
| 4 | A | Analysis | B | Analyses | C | Analyzing |
| 5 | A | or | B | but | C | and |
| 6 | A | help | B | assistance | C | aid |
| 7 | A | awards | B | rewards | C | records |
| 8 | A | define | B | determine | C | deploy |
| 9 | A | credentials | B | credibility | C | creditworthiness |
| 10 | A | long-term | B | long-time | C | long-standing |
Re-order the jumbled sentences. The initial word is given in bold type.
1. Many /both/involve/decisions/financing/and/simultaneously/investing/business.
2. A/ decisions/cash/granting/make/loans/regarding/bank/and/manager/of/managing/a/may/balances.
3. This /finance/of/with/users/the/together/their/of/banks/area/with/deals/ funds/suppliers/bringing.
12. There are three types of conditional sentences in English which can express A) real condition, B) unreal present/future or C) unreal past. Consider the conditional sentences of Type A which contain the conjunction if/whether found in the text What is financial management?
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1. if a company may wish to acquire another firm, it is an investment decision.
2. If managers decide to borrow money, the borrowed funds must be repaid within a specified period of time.
3. If managers decide to raise funds by selling ownership interests, these funds never have to be paid back.
4. Whether a financial decision involves investing, financing, or both, it also will be concerned with two specific factors
Turn the sentences from the exercise above into Type B and Type C. Follow the models.
Model 1 (unreal present/future):
if a company may wish to acquire another firm, it is an investment decision. if a company might wish to acquire another firm, it would be an investment decision.
Model 2 (unreal past):
if a company might have wished to acquire another firm, it would have been an investment decision.
Read the newspaper article and discuss with your partner the issues mentioned before the article.
1. The problem Francis Halzen faced.
2. The solution to the problem he found.
3. What would you do if you were F. Halzen?
