- •Unit 6. Finance for strategy
- •1. Read the text and match the topic sentences a-h to the gaps 1-7.
- •Financial Management functions
- •3. Work with vocabulary. Identify the words and word combinations from the previous exercise by the context provided.
- •4. Lexical Card. Prepare a short talk on the following topics, using the lexical items listed below, either in written or oral form:
- •5. Work either individually or in pairs / groups. Answer the following questions. Prepare a report, if necessary.
- •Text 2 Banking On Blue Chip Stocks
- •1. Scan the text and match the subheadings to the parts I-V.
- •2. Read the text and say whether the statements are true or false.
- •3. Summarize the content of the text.
- •5. Work with vocabulary. Identify the words and word combinations from the previous exercise by the context provided.
- •6. Lexical Card. Prepare a short talk on the following topics, using the lexical items listed below, either in written or oral form:
- •7. Work either individually or in pairs / groups. Answer the following questions. Prepare a report, if necessary.
- •Five Steps of a Bubble
- •1. Skim the text and match the pictures a-g to the paragraphs 1-7.
- •§ 3. 1. Displacement
- •§ 4. 2. Boom
- •§ 5. 3. Euphoria
- •§ 6. 4. Profit Taking
- •§ 7. 5. Panic
- •2. Read the text and answer the questions.
- •3. Work with vocabulary. Identify the words and word combinations marked violet in the text with their definitions given in the table below.
- •4. Work with vocabulary. Identify the words and word combinations from the previous exercise by the context provided.
- •5. Lexical Card. Prepare a short talk on the following topics, using the lexical items listed below, either in written or oral form:
- •6. Watch the film “Margin Call” (2011) and describe the situation of the 2008 crisis.
- •7. Work either individually or in pairs / groups. Answer the following questions. Prepare a report, if necessary.
- •1. Scan the text and
- •Five Lessons from the World's Biggest Bankruptcies
- •3. Give the summary of the five lessons from the World's Biggest Bankruptcies.
- •Vocabulary. Part I
- •Vocabulary. Part II
- •5. Work with vocabulary. Identify the words and word combinations from the previous exercise by the context provided.
- •Vocabulary. Part I
- •Vocabulary. Part II
- •6. Lexical Card. Prepare a short talk on the following topics, using the lexical items listed below, either in written or oral form:
- •7. Read the recommended articles in the text and prepare reports on the topics.
- •8. Watch the film “Wall Street II. Money Never Sleeps” (2010) and find illustrations of the processes described in the text.
- •9. Discussion. Lessons to be learnt from the article and the films. Final discussion
- •Unit 6 wordlist
- •Unit 7 Budgets, Decisions and Risks
- •1. Make an outline of the text Managerial Accounting
- •2. Write a word from the box in the correct form in each gap.
- •Money management - an introduction
- •3. Circle the correct word or phrase.
- •4. Develop the topic suggested
- •1 . Highlight the topic sentences and justify your choice Trading on Teamwork
- •Curriculum vitae
- •2. Fill in the gaps with the right prepositions Dealing with debt
- •3. Each of the words or phrases in bold is incorrect. Rewrite them correctly.
- •4. What aspects in the company management should be taken into consideration to make the right investment decision ?
- •1.What is the main idea of the text ? Financial crisis could turn the tide against unrestricted capital flows
- •2. Fill in the right word from the text
- •3. Answer the questions
- •4. Develop the topic: what do the market crises depend on?
- •1. Think of some other title for the text Downturn, start up
- •2. Choose the right word combination (scarce,collateral,teeth, spur,commissioned)
- •3. Qualify the statements, whether they are true or false
- •Unit 8 and 9 People as a Resource / Developing People
- •1. What do you think is similar in the job of a mentor and a coacher? What could be the main difference between them?
- •2. Read the text below to check if your ideas were right. Name the most striking difference between mentoring and coaching. Mentoring versus coaching
- •3. Scan through the text once again and put m next to the phrases which characterize mentoring, and c next to those which are typical of coaching.
- •4. Paraphrase the last sentence of the text. How far do you agree with it?
- •5. Explain the meaning of the highlighted words/phrases in English.
- •6. Translate from Russian into English.
- •7. Discuss in pairs.
- •2. Underline the key phrases which help differentiate one term from the other.
- •3. Define the phrases from the text which are in bold.
- •2A. Scan through the text to check if you were right.
- •2B. Read the text once again and find potential hazards a team can face at some stages.
- •2C. Using your own teamwork experience, name 1) the stage(s) which can be skipped; 2) the other hazards a team can face at each of the stages.
- •1. Scan through the text below and find out why it has got such a title. Team-building for charity brings tears to my eyes
- •2. Answer the following questions about the text:
- •3. Summarize the text ‘Team-building for charity brings tears to my eyes’.
- •4. Define the words in bold.
- •5. Fill in the gaps with an appropriate word / phrase from the box.
- •6. Discuss in pairs.
- •1. The title of the text below is The Value of Poaching. Scan through paragraphs 1-3 and find out what poaching is. Write a short definition for this term.
- •Wordlist for unit 8 and 9
- •Unit 12 Management information systems
- •1. Make an outline of the text.
- •2. Read the definitions and find corresponding words or expressions.
- •3. Think of an appropriate title for the text.
- •4. Explain the difference between data, information and knowledge, providing examples from the sphere of management.
- •1. Make an outline of the text.
- •2. Read the definitions and find corresponding words or expressions.
- •3. Choose the most appropriate title for the text:
- •4. Answer the questions.
- •What information do you need?
- •3. Answer the questions.
- •4. Speak on the role of data, information and knowledge in management studies or business management using one of the following sets of words.
- •2. Read the definitions and find corresponding words or expressions.
- •3. Answer the questions.
- •1. Find the topic sentences of the paragraphs. Management Attitude about cis Resources and Their Use
- •2. Read the definitions and find corresponding words or expressions.
- •3. Match the sentences from the text with the paragraphs 1-9.
- •4. Choose the right alternative.
- •5. Answer the questions.
- •6. Name a few fields where being bullish is vital and being bearish is acceptible; provide supporting arguments.
- •Wordlist for unit 12
2. Choose the right word combination (scarce,collateral,teeth, spur,commissioned)
1.Recessions may ------the setting up of new businesses.
2.In the recession times credit is -------.
3.The wish to start a business was so great that the newly fledged entrepreneurs never hesitated to use their dwellings as ------.
4.The municipal authoriries --------the study of home businesses development
5.He set up his bakery and cut his ------ during bleak times.
3. Qualify the statements, whether they are true or false
1. The recession period is the wrong time to establish any sort of business.
2.Recession may spur the formation of new businesses.
3.Credit is plentiful in the recession times.
4.Not many people, those of the working age, look foror a job during the economic downturn.
5.Recessions affect the way people make decisions.
4. Discuss all the blessings and curses of the downturn times. Give examples.
5. Debate on the reasons of the latter crisis –whether it came natural with Riussia or was artificially introduced from the outside.Who benefited from it? Outcomes for Russia?
Wordlist for Unit 7
p.54 |
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break even (v. adj.) |
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performance |
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contingency |
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indicator |
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official ( n. adg) |
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to scrutinize |
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to eliminate |
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to factor in |
учитывать, принимать во внимание |
to margin |
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to incur |
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to amend |
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p.55 |
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to handle |
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to overlap |
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draft budget |
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budget allocation |
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cost-benefit analysis –анализ затрат |
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to adjust |
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p.56 |
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management accounting |
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financial accounting |
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qualitative decision making |
принятие решений, основанных на мнении экспертов |
p.57 |
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index |
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liquidity |
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to mitigate |
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fixed costs |
постоянные затраты |
variable costs |
переменные затраты |
fluctuation |
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p.59 |
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up-and-coming |
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to undertake |
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feasibility study |
технико-экономическое обоснование |
p.124 |
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the former |
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the latter |
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p.125 |
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favourable variance |
положительное отклонение |
adverse variance |
нежелательное отклонение |
to monitor the performance |
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labor variance |
отклонение от нормативных затрат труда |
material variance |
отклонение по материалам |
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accurate |
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revenue |
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likelihood |
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capital budget |
бюджет капиталовложений |
operating budget - |
смета текущих расходов |
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Text1 |
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Home currency |
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Forward rate |
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Return on investment/nest egg( text 3) |
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By contrast, alternatively |
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Entity |
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Depreciation |
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Exchange rate |
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Adjustment |
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To hedge (against) |
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Operational budgeting |
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Cash flow/ inflow/outflow |
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Environmental uncertainty/unrest |
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Lump sum |
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To pay by installments |
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To speculate |
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Text 2 |
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To mount up |
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To weigh down |
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To size up |
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To break down |
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To pay back, to pay out |
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To build up( the debt) |
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To add up to |
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To fall short |
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To split( go) fifty-fifty |
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it is as broad as it is long =the same |
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to be knee-high to a grasshopper=to be really too young |
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to line one’s pocket=to make for oneself in a way that it is disapproved of |
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drop in the ocean |
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lock, stock and barrel=completely |
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half a dozen |
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a tidy (handsome, comfortable) sum of money |
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to break even |
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to keep up with smb.=to compete socially ( ex.buying the same expensive things) |
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ultimately |
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to set guidelines |
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equity |
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bond |
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Text 3 |
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Drastic austerity measures |
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Much-needed |
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Savings glut=saving more than needed |
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Borrowing binge=to borrow unreasonably |
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To pull the rug out from smb/smth= to suddenly stop helping/supporting |
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Contagion risk=quickly spreading |
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Sovereignity risk = risk to lose independence |
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Fragility risk =risk to become easily damaged |
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To take over |
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To rain down |
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Credit crunch |
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Stop-go cycle |
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Emerging economy |
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Text 4 |
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To spur business |
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Collateral |
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To commission |
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To cut one’s teeth on = to gain one’s experience from doing smth |
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Economic downturn |
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Bear market/bull market |
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Scarce (credit) |
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Shrinking economy |
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To take root |
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Vast majority |
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Leverage |
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Money is tight |
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Risk averse |
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Cost-effectiveness |
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Risk-lover/taker |
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Fiscal prudence |
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Years of plenty |
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To be footloose |
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