Thursday, 19 November 2020

3. ACCOUNTING AND ACCOUNTANCY PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH IN USE FOR FINANCE

 

PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH IN USE FOR FINANCE

3. ACCOUNTING AND ACCOUNTANCY

 

A

Accounting

·       Accounting involves recording and summarizing an organization’s transactions or business deals, such as purchases and sales, and reporting them in the form of financial statements. In many countries, the accounting or accountancy profession has professional organizations which operate their own training and examination systems, and make technical and ethical rules; these relate to accepted ways of doing things.


B

Auditing

Auditing means examining a company’s systems of control and the accuracy or exactness of its records, looking for errors or possible fraud: where the company may have deliberately given false information.


C

Laws, rules and standards


EXERCISE

3.1

What type of work does each person do, and what is the name of each job? Look at A and B opposite to help you.

1

I record all the purchases and sales made by this department.

2

This month, I’m examining the accounts of a large manufacturing company.


3.2

Match the two parts of the sentences. Look at C opposite to help you.

1

In Britain

2

In most of continental Europe and Japan.

3

In the USA.

4

In Britain and the USA

5

In much of continental Europe

 


3.3

Find verbs in A, B and C opposite that can be used to make word combinations with the nouns below.


ANSWER KEY

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