ESL Home Financial Vocabulary in English
ESL Home Financial Vocabulary in English explains the language of money in four groups: the core terms of business performance, banking and payment words, accounting and reporting words, and the vocabulary of investing and corporate finance. The terms are explained in running prose with workplace examples, a table sets six of the commonest ones beside a plain meaning and a sample sentence, and the closing sections give a method for learning them.
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The core section separates revenue from profit, cost from expense, gross from net, and fixed from variable. Banking covers deposits, transfers, balances, loans, overdrafts, net 30, remittance and reconciliation, and separates invoice, receipt and purchase order. Reporting covers the three statements, margins, break-even, depreciation and audit. Investing covers shares, bonds, valuation and an IPO.
You read the section that matches your own work and note the word partnerships the article points out, such as generate revenue, cut costs, issue an invoice and reconcile accounts, which decide whether a sentence sounds professional. It also suggests a way of testing yourself: explain in one sentence the difference between revenue and profit, or invoice and receipt, and you know the pair well enough to use it.
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