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Talaera English for Accounting Terms, Phrases and Collocations

Description:

Talaera English for Accounting Terms, Phrases and Collocations gathers more than eighty accounting terms, set phrases and verb-noun pairings, organized by the workplace moments where finance professionals use them: month-end close, audits, invoicing, budgeting, reporting to stakeholders and explaining figures to colleagues outside finance. Talaera, a business English training company, publishes it, and adds a US and UK terminology table and a list of acronyms.

100% Free (unlimited): The full guide is open on the page, with no account and no payment. Every vocabulary table, example sentence, collocation list and acronym list is visible to anyone who opens it, together with the US and UK comparison table and the questions answered at the foot of the page.

Access: 100% Free Level: Intermediate (B1-B2) & Advanced (C1-C2) Format: Article / Reference Written for: Business English (ESL) English Variant: US

How It Helps Your Business English

What this resource offers:

Vocabulary tables cover the balance sheet, the income statement, cash flow and liquidity, each term with a definition and an example sentence. Further sections hold the language of month-end close, audit and compliance, the invoicing cycle from purchase order to remittance, budgeting and planning, reporting phrases and hedging, fifteen acronyms and ten idioms.

How to use this resource:

You go to the section that matches the task in front of you, whether that is closing the books, answering auditors, chasing an invoice or presenting results, and carry its terms and sample sentences into your own emails and calls. You can read the verb-noun pairings aloud to fix which verb belongs with which noun, and keep the plain-language swaps for the moments a colleague outside finance needs the same point in simpler words.

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Last verified — Oct. 19, 2026