Ex. 7. Work on vocabulary and grammar.

a) Study the key words of the unit in the dictionary at the back of this book:

assets, exchange rate, interest rate, management, return, value, flow;

b) Think of the verbs that are commonly used with:

funds, financing, assets, inventory, cash, merger, dividends, liquid assets, business, solvency, profitability, risk, return;

c) Think of the nouns that are most often used with:

to acquire, to finance, to borrow, to distribute, to hold, to measure, to manage;

d) Think of word combinations with these words:

assets, capital, to manage, liabilities, ratio, shares, cost, return, cash, value;

e) Match the verbs from (a) with the nouns from (b) below:

 

a) to maximize b) services

to perform company

to delegate cash

to acquire outlays

to reduce value

to generate cash flow

to evaluate production facilities

to expand calculation

to calculate authority

to adjust shareholder wealth

to manage inventories