【Finance】今日の学び_20100926

Professional English in USE – Finance

経済用語に強くなろう、第二回目。

【2. Business finance】

・Small campanies often try to get bank loans when they need to borrow money.

・We don’t have sufficient money to build a complentely new factory.

・Details of a company’s liabilities are shown on the balance sheet.

・We’re going to raise more money by selling new shares to our existing shareholders.

・We had to rais $ 50,000 capital in order to start the business.

・We’re going to pay back some of the people who lent us money, and reduce our debt.

・I decided to buy a $ 10,000 bond insted of shares, as it’s probably safer.

・Another term for profit is net income.

・I think this is a good investment: it pays 8% interest.

・When they saw our financial statements, the bank refused to lend us any more money.

・Profit is the different between revenue and expenses.

・The profit and loss account shows if a company is receiving more money than it’s spending.

・If you don’t like taking risks, you should only invest in very successful companies.

・A company’s retained earning belong to its owners.

・Anything a company uses to produce goods or services is an assets.

・The company made such a big profit, I expected a higher dividend.

・We sold a lot more last year, so our revenue went up.

・We owe our suppliers $100,000 for goods bought on credit.

・Everyone who buys a share owes parts of the company.

・Thirty percent of our profits goes straight to the government in tax.