- •080109.65 - «Бухгалтерский учет, анализ и аудит»,
- •Г.А. Дубинина и.Ф. Драчинская
- •Учебные задания по английскому языку
- •Лингафонному курсу «Язык бизнеса»
- •080105.65 - «Финансы и кредит»,
- •Who’s Who in the Company
- •Ian Hampden, Ian - Personnel Manager Green, Jack - Shop steward
- •Phrase list
- •Exercise 4
- •Phrase list
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Post-listening
- •Phrase list
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Post-listening
- •Sum up everything you came to know from the unit about
- •Phrase list
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 4
- •Exercise 5
- •Post-listening
- •Phrase list
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 5
- •Post-listening
- •1. Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Post-listening
- •1. Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 5
- •Post-listening
- •Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 5
- •Post-listening
- •Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •7. What difficulties and problems do good employee-management relations present?
- •8. In what way do the management regulate the going-on activities?
- •9. What does the work of a Personnel Manager entail?
- •Listening Exercise 1
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 5
- •Post-listening
- •Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •Listening
- •Exercise 3
- •Post-listening
- •Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •Exercise 3
- •Post-listening
- •1. Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •Exercise 2
- •Post-listening
- •1. Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Illustration 1
- •Phrase list
- •5. What does the Balance Sheet show?
- •6. Why is stock valuation a mixed blessing?
- •Exercise 2
- •Post-listening
- •1. Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Phrase list
- •Listening
- •Exercise 2
- •Post-listening
- •1. Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Exercise 2
- •Exercise 3
- •Exercise 4
- •Post-listening Consider the following points. Share your ideas with a partner or a small group. Be prepared to explain your answers to the class.
- •Explain why and how hi-jackers stole office-furniture.
Who’s Who in the Company
Harper, Ambrose - Board of Directors’ Chairman
Grant, Wingate - late Managing Director, Hector Grant’s father
Grant, Hector - present Managing Director – the executive director in charge of the day-to-day running of the company
Wiles, Peter - Production Manager – executive in charge of production of goods in the factory; son of Mr. Grant’s sister - Hector Grant’s nephew, later Director
Martin, John - Sales Manager – executive in charge of promoting sales of the firm’s goods
Corby, Elizabeth - Hector Grant’s efficient secretary
Fielding, Ted - Works Manager
Buckhurst, William - Company Secretary, F.C.A. (a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants)
Thorn, Christopher - Management Trainee.
Mr. Roberts - Representative of Brown & Johnson, Insurance Adjusters
Mr. Baker - Chief Clerk in the General Office
Fenella - inexperienced shorthand typist
Jane - secretary of Peter Wiles
Mr. Windsmore - applicant for a job of an advertising manager
Harvey, Joanna - Advertising Manager
Mr. Scott - representative of Smith-Weston Consultants Ltd.
Ian Hampden, Ian - Personnel Manager Green, Jack - Shop steward
Smith - an operative
Mr. Brewer - Bank Manager
Mr. Wentworth - the owner of the rival company (mattress-makers)
Mr. Brent - Chief Auditor
Donald Kennet - a clerk
M.Shuttleworth - Sales Representative
The History of the Company |
Phrase list
Practise the pronunciation of the following words and word combinations; quote the sentences in which they are used in the text. Consult a dictionary and translate them into Russian.
Managing Director
Production Manager
Sales Manager
To be in one’s fifties
To be semi-retired
To attend the board meetings
To put the business on its feet
To capture a contract to supply somebody with something
Happy coincidence
To turn something into success or failure
To give somebody a higher command
To land one’s contract
To catch fire in a government department
To destroy a number of irreplaceable documents
To manufacture items of office equipment
Filing cabinets
To list in the catalogue
To run a business
To join the company
To be adventurous
To treble one’s business
To increase profitability and competitiveness
To have experts on the staff
To hire expert advice from outside consultants and bureaux
To be aware of the more sophisticated techniques
Electronic data processing
Task 1
Exercise 1
Give the English equivalents for the following word combinations:
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Exercise 2
Match the phrases on the left with an appropriate explanation on the right.
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Operational Research (O.R.) |
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долгосрочное (стратегическое) планирова-ние; планирование деятельности корпорации |
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Discounted Cash Flow (D.C.F.) |
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исследование операций; анализ хозяйствен-ной деятельности предприятия с использо-ванием математических методов |
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Project Evaluation and Review Technique (P.E.R.T.) |
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система, используемая при планировании проекта и контроле за его осуществлением |
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budgetary control |
D |
метод подсчета прибыльности предприятия или оборудования; дисконтированный поток наличности |
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corporate planning |
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контроль хозяйственной деятельности методом сличения со сметой |
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Task 2
Exercise 1
You are going to listen to the introduction to the course. Before you listen to the abstract look at these statements. After you have listened to the abstract determine whether these statements are true (T) or false (F). Explain why.
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The company of Harper & Grant Ltd. was started forty-two years ago by Ambrose Harper and Hector Grant. |
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Ambrose Harper’s son Hector is the present Managing Director. He is in his fifties (aged between forty and fifty). |
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Though the Chairman of the company, Ambrose Harper, is old and semi-retired, he still attends the board meetings and keeps an eye on the business. |
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At the beginning of its activity Harper & Grant Ltd. produced wastepaper baskets made of cane or straw. |
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Wingate Grant managed to put the business on its feet when he captured a big contract to supply government offices with steel wastepaper bins. |
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Mr. Grant Senior used to tell the story that once a cane wastepaper basket had caught fire in his office and a number of irreplaceable documents were destroyed by the fire. After that he decided to make steel wastepaper bins for offices. |
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Nowadays Harper & Grant Ltd. manufacture different items of office equipment: not only desks, chairs, cupboards, filing cabinets but also smaller objects, such as filing trays, stapling machines and so on. All in all there are fifty-six various items listed in their catalogue. |
Exercise 2
Listen to the introduction to the course. Fill in the spaces in the sentences below with the words actually used.
The firm has a history of … … … . Hector Grant firmly believes that he knows the best way … … . However, his nephew Peter Wiles (son of Mr. Grant’s sister), … … … six years ago and is … …, and John Martin, … … years ago to be … …, are more adventurous. They want … … … over the next few years and are certain that, with … … … and increased …, they can achieve this.
Modernising a business … … … and … is a complicated affair. It requires a … … which is aware of such aids and tools of efficiency as … … …, O.R. (… …), D.C.F. (… … …), budgetary control, … …, P.E.R.T. (… … and … …), automation, etc.
Exercise 3
Listen to the introduction to the course. All the remarks are mixed up. Put them in the order they appear in the abstract. Use the grid below.
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On the other hand, it is important that members of a firm’s management are aware of the more sophisticated techniques they might call on to solve particular problems. |
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But Harper & Grant Ltd., like their rivals, must get right up-to-date and enlarge their business. |
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A small business cannot possibly afford to have on its staff experts in every modern management technique. |
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Inevitably while this changeover from the old way to the new is taking place, there are often difficulties and conflict. |
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It usually hires expert advice from outside consultants and bureaux. |
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