- •Contents
- •Передмова
- •Financial system
- •Finance and financial system
- •II. Vocabulary exercises
- •Revenue sources and revenue-sharing arrangements in Ukraine:
- •A. Dialogue
- •1. Read and translate the dialogue in pairs:
- •Vocabulary list:
- •2. Read the dialogue, translate the Ukrainian remarks into English and act it out:
- •Communicative situations
- •A) Supply the prepositions where necessary.
- •Budgetary policy
- •2. Read the text and name the facts from the text which are new to you: Treasury
- •3.Read the text and say what you know about the budget process in Ukraine:
- •III. Match what statements are true and what are false. Results write to the table:
- •Fiscal management
- •Financial policy. Fiscal sphere
- •A. Dialogue
- •Vocabulary list:
- •2. Read the dialogue, translate the Ukrainian remarks into English and act it out:
- •Communicative situations
- •2.Express your attitude to the following:
- •3.Prepare a short talk on the following:
- •A) Supply the articles where necessary.
- •Financial Policy
- •A) Supply the articles where necessary.
- •Fiscal Policy in the uk
- •A) Fill each gap with a suitable word from the box.
- •A) Read and discuss the texts.
- •Write down five questions about each text.
- •A) Read and discuss the texts.
- •Say what you know about the use of multiyear budgeting and budget classification in Ukraine. Types of Budget Classification
- •A) Read the article quickly and underline the parts about the challenge the transition economies face and the constraints affecting the ability of the governments to meet the challenge.
- •I. Fill in each space with the appropriate words from a, b or c:
- •Taxation
- •What are taxes?
- •Column a
- •Tax system in Ukraine
- •A. Dialogue
- •1. Read and translate the dialogue in pairs: Taxation in Ukraine
- •Vocabulary:
- •2. Read the dialogue, translate the Ukrainian remarks into English and act it out:
- •B. Communicative situations
- •4. Make a short essay on the following:
- •A) Supply the articles where necessary.
- •A) Supply prepositions where necessary.
- •What Is an Excise Duty?
- •Open the brackets putting the verbs in the correct form: Tax Reform in Developing Countries
- •Read the text below carefully and underline the parts of it giving basic ideas about the desired features of a tax system. Tax System Design
- •I. Mark the correct answers on the following questions:
- •II.Fill the tables:
- •III. Match what statements are true and what are false. Results write to the table:
- •Central banking system
- •A. Dialogue
- •1. Read and translate the dialogue in pairs: Banking system in Ukraine
- •Vocabulary:
- •2. Read the dialogue, translate the Ukrainian remarks into English and act it out:
- •1. A) Supply the articles where necessary.
- •Credit Policy
- •A) Supply the prepositions where necessary.
- •3.A) Open the brackets, putting the verbs in the correct form.
- •The Bank of England
- •Fill each gap with a suitable word from the box. Sum up the text in 5-7 sentences. Present your summary in class.
- •Us Activities of Foreign Banking Organizations
- •A) Read and discuss the text.
- •Is Monetary Policy Needed?
- •A) Read and discuss the text.
- •Payment Systems
- •I. For each word or sentence choose the correct definition:
- •II.Match what statements are true and what are false. Results write to the table:
- •Banking system
- •Commercial banks
- •6To transact stock and share business – укладати угоди із цінними паперами
- •Column b
- •A. Dialogue
- •Vocabulary:
- •2. Read the dialogue, translate the Ukrainian remarks into English and act it out:
- •3.Make up a dialogue on the following:
- •B. Communicative situations
- •Make a short essay on the following:
- •1. A) Supply the articles where necessary.
- •2. A) Supply the articles where necessary.
- •Bank Accounts
- •3.A) Supply the prepositions where necessary.
- •The Nature of Banking
- •4. A) Open the brackets putting the verbs in the correct form.
- •5.Look through the text and name the facts which are new to you.
- •Choose the word which best completes each sentence:
- •II.Match what statements are true and what are false. Results write to the table:
- •International monetary system
- •International monetary institutions
- •A. Dialogue
- •Imf’s support for ukrainian reforms
- •1. Read and translate the dialogue in pairs:
- •Vocabulary:
- •2. Read the dialogue, translate the Ukrainian remarks into English and act it out:
- •3. Make up a dialogue on the following:
- •B. Communicative situations
- •A) Supply the articles where necessary.
- •International Monetary Fund
- •2.A) Supply the prepositions where necessary.
- •Your Partner ebrd
- •3. A) Fill each gap with a suitable word from the box.
- •Imbalances pur World Bank – International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (ibrd)
- •Match what statements are true and what are false. Results write to the table:
- •II. Fill the tables:
- •Foreign exchange market. Global financial markets
- •Trading in the foreign exchange market
- •A. Dialogue
- •1. Read and translate the dialogue in pairs: cornerstone of the global financial market
- •Vocabulary
- •2.Read the dialogue, translate the Ukrainian remarks into English and act it out:
- •Communicative situations
- •Global Financial Markets
- •2. A) Fill each gap with a suitable word from the box.
- •The Eurocurrency Market
- •3.Read the text quickly to find the types of most widely used swaps: Foreign Exchange Swaps
- •4. Read the text quickly to find answers to the following questions:
- •Foreign Exchange Options
- •Choose the correct answer:
- •Match what statements are true and what are false. Results write to the table:
- •Financial markets. The stock market
- •Stock markets
- •A. Dialogue
- •The corporate securities market in ukraine
- •Vocabulary
- •2. Read the dialogue, translate the Ukrainian remarks into English and act it out.
- •B. Communicative situations
- •2.A) Supply the prepositions where necessary.
- •Equity Market
- •3.A) Open the brackets putting the verbs in the correct form.
- •4. A) Fill each gap with a suitable word from the box below.
- •The New York Stock Exchange
- •5. A) Read the text below quickly and name organizations involved in the issues.
- •The New Issue Market
- •I. Choose the correct answer:
- •II.Match what statements are true and what are false. Results write to the table:
- •III.Fill the tables:
- •Financial markets. The bond market
- •Trading in the bond market
- •A. Dialogue
- •Vocabulary
- •2. Read the dialogue, translate the Ukrainian remarks into English and act it out:
- •3.Make up a dialogue on the following:
- •B. Communicative situations
- •You have an exam. The question is: “What is the difference between debt and equity market?”
- •Prepare a short talk on the following:
- •1. A) Supply the articles where necessary.
- •The Eurobond Market
- •2. A) Supply the prepositions where necessary.
- •3. A) Read the text.
- •4. A) Look through the text below to say what types of securities are described in it.
- •Us Government Securities
- •I.Choose the correct answer:
- •II. Match what statements are true and what are false. Results write to the table:
- •III. Fill the tables:
- •Financial management
- •Financial function
- •Financial ratios
- •A. Dialogue
- •Ratio analysis
- •Vocabulary list:
- •Read the dialogue, translate the Ukrainian remarks into English and act it out:
- •1. A) Supply the articles where necessary.
- •A) Read the text.
- •Corporate Governance
- •3. Read the text and say how investment risks can be reduced:
- •Investment Management
- •4. A) Supply the prepositions where necessary.
- •Financial Capital
- •5. A) Fill each gap with a suitable word from the box.
- •I. For each word or sentence choose the correct definition:
- •II. Match what statements are true and what are false. Results write to the table:
- •Accounting
- •Accounting principles and concepts
- •Book-keeping:
- •The double-entry bookkeeping:
- •A. Dialogue
- •1. Read and translate the dialogue in pairs: accountancy in a free-market economy
- •Vocabulary list:
- •2. Read the dialogue, translate the Ukrainian remarks into English and act it out:
- •3. Speak about the work of public accountants, private accountants, and accountants who work for units of the government and non-for-profit firms. B. Communicative situations
- •1. A) Supply the prepositions where necessary.
- •2. A) Read the text and single out the main facts and present them in a short review.
- •Read the text that follows to find the answers to the following questions:
- •Financial Statements And Their Elements
- •Balance sheet
- •Liabilities
- •Revenues
- •Expenses
- •Gains and losses
- •Choose the correct answer:
- •II. Match what statements are true and what are false. Results write to the table:
- •Auditing
- •Performing an audit
- •Audit strategy:
- •Audit risk:
- •A. Dialogue
- •1. Read and translate the dialogue in pairs: auditing in ukraine
- •Vocabulary:
- •2. Read the dialogue, translate the Ukrainian remarks into English and act it out:
- •3.Make up dialogues on the following:
- •B. Communicative situations
- •Discuss with your friends:
- •1. A) Read the texts and do the tasks that follow.
- •2.A) Supply the prepositions where necessary.
- •Auditors’ Report
- •3.A) Open the brackets putting the verbs in the correct form.
- •Misuse of Public Funds
- •4.A) Supply the articles where necessary.
- •Fill in each space with the appropriate words from a, b or c:
- •II. Which is correct:
- •III. Match what statements are true and what are false. Results write to the table:
- •IV. Fill the tables:
- •Glossary
- •Phraseology of reports and speeches coherent and generalization phrases
- •Phrases that are used in admission expressions
- •Nouns: common and possessive case
- •Count and noncount nouns
- •Some common noncount nouns
- •Using nouns as modifiers
- •The indefenite aricle
- •The definite article
- •No article
- •Personal pronouns
- •Possessive pronouns
- •Reflexive pronouns
- •Indefinite pronouns
- •Quantitive pronouns
- •Demonstrative pronouns
- •Degrees of comparison of adectives and adverbs
- •Numerals
- •The functions of the verb «to be»
- •The functions of the verb «to have»
- •The functions of the verb «to do»
- •General questions
- •Tag questions
- •Question words when
- •More questions with how
- •Modal verbs can; could to be able to
- •May; might
- •Must; be to; have to; have got to
- •Should; ought to
- •Will; would
- •Indefinite pronoun «one»
- •The pronouns «both, either and neither»
- •Senquence of tenses
- •The infinitive
- •The prepositional infinitive complex
- •The objective infinitivecomplex
- •The subjective infinitive complex
- •The participle
- •Complexes with the participle the objective participle complex
- •The subjective participle complex
- •The gerund. Forms and functions
- •The gerundal complex
- •Conditional sentenses
- •Irregular verbs
- •Reference list
A) Read the article quickly and underline the parts about the challenge the transition economies face and the constraints affecting the ability of the governments to meet the challenge.
Reread the article more carefully and pick out facts explaining the changes in the social sphere in comparison with the past and the recommendations of international experts.
Transition Economies Need to Reform Social Safety Nets
The former centrally planned countries undergoing economic transition have experienced a sharp decline in output, income and employment in recent years. This has resulted in severe hardships for many households, particularly the elderly, young children, and the unemployed.
In this adverse climate, transition countries now face the challenge of securing adequate resources for social protection. But the ability of governments to help identify the poor or administer targeted social protection programmes is undermined by severe financial and administrative constraints.
Unemployment and Underemployment. The collapse of output has drastically reduced labor demand, increasing open unemployment in some countries and underemployment in others. While registered unemployment throughout the region is low, total employment has declined.
The absence of normal labor market adjustment mechanisms in transitional economies further complicates the employment situation. For example, despite diminishing work opportunities in the formal sector, large numbers of employees choose to stick with their traditional employers in order to hold onto company-provided housing, education, and health benefits; an additional incentive to stay put is the inadequacy of unemployment compensation.
Financial Constraints. Prior to the onset of the reforms the governments of centrally planned economies controlled virtually all prices and wages; guaranteed employment for all, at least in principle; and provided universal public pensions, child allowances, and other benefits for sickness, maternity, and childbirth. But since the early 1990s, outlays for social protection in transition countries have come under increased financial pressure since revenue from payroll taxes – traditional source of funding for such programmes – began to fall.
Besides, the low statutory retirement ages for men and women have further reduced the number of working-age individuals.
On top of that the authorities have so far been unable to improve the distorted benefits structure. They still provide generous services with loose eligibility requirements, running from housing benefits to subsidized vacations. Paradoxically, welfare benefits are distributed among all instead of being given to the most needy.
Since the above trends have affected both the revenue base of social protection programs and the ability of these countries to target social benefits, international experts believe that to find a solution of social protection problem the transition economies will have to:
reform eligibility and benefits standards governing the distribution of social benefits;
raise statutory retirement ages;
require individuals to vacate their last job on reaching retirement age;
establish a more equitable distribution of social adjustment burdens across different population groups;
broaden the tax base to include presently untaxed elements of labour compensation; increase the efficiency of expenditures in government programmes, including outlays for social protection, and prioritize them;
work out effective targeting mechanisms for the provision of benefits.
Words you may need:
targeted program – цільова програма
to stay put – залишатись на місці; не змінювати місце роботи
onset – початок
child allowance – допомога на дитину
maternity – материнство
payroll taxes – податок на заробітну плату
statutory – встановлений законом
eligibility – застосовуваність (пільг), попадання (під пільги)
retirement age – пенсійний вік, вік виходу на пенсію
vacate – звільнювати
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