- •Reading Practice in English for Students of Finance
- •Block 1. Functions of the Financial System and the Financial Markets a. Functions of the Financial System
- •Savings Function
- •Wealth Function
- •Liquidity Function
- •Credit Function
- •Payments Function
- •Policy Function
- •B. The Financial Markets and Financial System
- •Vocabulary Notes
- •Block 2. The Study of Money and Capital Markets
- •A. The Money Market versus the Capital Market
- •B. Divisions of the Money and Capital Markets
- •Vocabulary Notes
- •A. Money and Functions
- •The Medium of Exchange
- •Other Functions of Money
- •B. Central Banking. The Bank and the Money Supply
- •Reserved Requirements
- •C. The Discount Rate
- •D. A Plain Man's Guide to Investment
- •Vocabulary Notes
- •Exercises
- •Block 4. The Central Bank of the Russian Federation
- •Open-market Operations
- •Monetary and Exchange-Rate Policy Central-bank Policy
- •Vocabulare Notes
- •Exercises
- •Block 5. British Banking
- •Overseas Banks
- •Foreign Banks
- •The Merchant Banks
- •The Stock Exchange
- •Vocabulary Notes
- •Block 6. Barclays Bank Account Why a Bank Account Makes Sense
- •A Current Account with Three Options to Choose from
- •The Options in Brief
- •Interest Option
- •Instant Option
- •Bank Charges
- •Your Statement
- •Using Barclays Cheque Book What is a Cheque?
- •How to Pay for Goods and Services by Cheque
- •How to Obtain Cash with a Cheque
- •How to Get a New Cheque Book
- •How to Stop a Cheque
- •If you have used a Barclays cheque guarantee card to issue a cheque, it cannot be stopped. Using your Barclays plastic cards
- •How to pay for goods and services using Barclays connect
- •How to obtain cash using your Barclays connect or Barclaybank card
- •Making regular payments
- •Standing orders
- •1. Dialogue
- •Brokerage services
- •2. Dialogue
- •Governmental controls 3. Dialogue
- •Structure and functions of a bank in the u.S.
- •4. Dialogue
- •Currency and other forms of exchange in the u.S.
- •5. Dialogue
- •Block 8. Financial Reports Consolidated financial report of the large financial holding company
- •1. Consolidated statements of income of Citicorp and subsidiaries
- •Vocabulary Notes
- •2. Consolidated balance sheets of Citicorp and subsidiaries
- •Vocabulary Notes
- •3. Consolidated statement of cash flows of Citicorp and subsidiaries
- •Income taxes
- •4. Financial report of the small enterprise. 'Balance sheet of HiFi Sounds'
- •Vocabulary Notes
- •5. Income Statement of HiFi Sounds
- •Vocabulary Notes
- •Grammar Reference Грамматический справочник Личные формы глагола в предложении.
- •1. Времена глагола в действительном и страдательном залогах. Изъявительное наклонение.
- •Сводная таблица
- •Образование времен в страдательном залоге
- •Перевод сказуемого в страдательном залоге
- •Сводная таблица
- •2. Сослагательное наклонение
- •Формы сослагательного наклонения
- •Употребление сослагательного наклонения
- •3. Модальные глаголы и их эквиваленты
- •Сочетание модальных глаголов с Perfect Infinitive
- •Сочетание модальных глаголов с infinitive passive
- •4. Многофункциональные глаголы Функции глаголов should и would
- •Функции глагола то do в предложении
- •Функции глагола то have в предложении
- •Функции глагола то be в предложении
- •Он, она, оно (о неодушевленных предметах)
- •Указательное местоимение «это»
- •Наиболее употребительные составные союзы и предлоги и сочетания с as
- •What is a bank?
- •Bank Services: Old and New
- •Payments
- •Intermediation
- •Figure 1.2. Bank Goals and Constraints
- •Interest Rate Risk
- •Risk management
- •Importance of capital budgeting
- •Generating ideas for capital projects
- •Oject classifications
- •Increasing importance of financial management
- •The financial manager's responsibilities
Vocabulary Notes
medium of exchange - средство обмена;
the unit of account - единица расчета (учета);
standard of deferred payment - уровень отсроченных платежей;
purchasing power - покупательная способность;
reserve requirements - резервные требования;
discount rate - ставка дисконтирования;
open market operations - операции на открытом рынке;
scarce resources - редкие ресурсы;
pound sterling - 1 фунт стерлингов;
token money - бумажные деньги;
money multiplier - денежный мультипликатор;
prudent bank - осторожный банк;
lucrative lending - выгодный, прибыльный заем;
tax-free index - индекс налогового освобождения.
sight deposit - вклад клиента на предъявителя.
Test
1. Дополните следующие предложения, выбрав соответствующее по смыслу слово из колонки справа.
1. People must spend a lot of time and effort finding |
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purchases |
others with whom they can make mutually satisfactory ... |
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owe |
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swaps |
2. Money is a store of value because it can be used to |
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token money |
make . in the future. |
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liability |
3. When you have a bank deposit the bank ... you money. |
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interest |
4. Thus money supply is partly a ... of the bank and partly |
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loan |
a ... of commercial banks. |
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5. The modern economics . is supplemented by your |
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money. |
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6. The modern economics . is specifying in dollar the |
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amount that must be repaid next year. |
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7. Since money pays no and its real purchasing power |
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is eroded by inflation there are certainly better ways to |
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store value. |
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2. Выберете русские эквиваленты к английским словам слева.
1. barter economy |
1. скидка |
2. discount |
2. бартерная экономика |
3. goods |
3. выгоды |
4. payment |
4. счет |
5. account |
5. товары |
6. debts |
6. долги |
7. benefits |
7. платеж |
3. Выберите английские эквиваленты к русским словам слева.
1. сокращать |
1. to owe |
2. покупать |
2. to reduce |
3. занимать (деньги) |
3. to consume |
4. терять |
4. to borrow |
5. владеть (собственностью) |
5. to lose |
6. расширять |
6. to swap |
7. обменивать |
7. to expand |
8. быть должным |
8. to oron |