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​Finance and Accounting session 

The aim of this session is:

  • to assess candidate's ability to operate in English in an international finance and accounting environment

  • to allow candidates to demonstrate to employers their ability to communicate in English with clients and colleagues in the context of finance and accounting​​

  • to help candidates build up their financial  and accounting vocabulary

ACCOUNTING

  • accounting

  • auditing

  • bookkeeping (double-entry bookkeeping, day books and ledgers)

  • company law (partnership, Ltd, Plc, AGMs)

  • accounting policies and standards

  • depreciation and amortization

  • the balance sheet

  • the profit and loss account

  • the cash flow statement

  • financial ratios (liquidity and solvency ratios, earnings and dividends, profitability, leverage)

  • cost accounting

CORPORATE FINANCE

  • venture capital (raising capital. return on capital)

  • stocks and shares 

  • shareholders

  • securities

  • futures

  • derivatives

  • asset management

  • hedge funds

  • mergers and takeovers

ECONOMICS AND TRADE

  • international trade

  • financing international trade (documentary credits, bills of exchange, export documents)

  • incoterms

  • the business cycle

  • taxation

  • business plans

LANGUAGE OF GRAPHS

  • describing charts and graphs
  • increase and decrease
  • rate of change
  • high points, low points and staying the same
  • vocabulary (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and prepositions)
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