Core Languages English for Accountants Vocabulary and Phrasing
Core Languages English for Accountants Vocabulary and Phrasing treats accounting English as a matter of phrasing rather than word lists, and takes the three places where accountants working in a second language hesitate: explaining a variance aloud, writing a review comment that is direct without being rude, and saying figures in a meeting. Twelve technical terms whose everyday meaning differs from their accounting meaning open the guide.
100% Free (unlimited): The guide is open on the page, with no account and no payment. The term list, the model sentences for variances, the hedging scale, the review and email phrases, the conventions for saying numbers aloud and the questions answered at the end are all on the one page.
How It Helps Your Business English
The terms separate accrual from provision, deferred from prepaid, and set out materiality, impairment, carrying amount, reconciliation and variance. Model sentences give the conventional shape of a variance answer, and a scale runs from it appears that up to in our assessment. Further sections give stock email sentences and the conventions for figures, percentages, dates and rounding.
You rehearse the variance answer in its three parts, what moved, why, and what you expect next, until it comes out in that order under questioning. The hedging scale lets you match your words to how sure you actually are, and the two written conventions are worth applying to your next review comment: address the work rather than the person, and ask for the basis of a figure instead of calling it wrong.
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