Business vocabulary
Task A
Fill in with a word beginning with A or B
1 That hotel is much too expensive for us; we can’t a______________________ it.
2 I’m not surprised our clients complained; they are not (gewohnt) a_____________________ to being treated in that way, and they certainly don’t (schätzen) a_________________ it.
3 If you’ve got money in your bank account, then you’re in the b__________________.If you haven’t, you’re in the red.
4 Because of the financial crisis the Swiss franc has (gained) a_____________________enormously against the dollar.
5 What (caused to happen) b____________ a______________ the credit crunch was bad banking practices in the US, like lending money to people who couldn’t pay to buy a house.
Many of those houses are now being (sold to the highest bidder) a_____________________ off. And many companies have declared (bankrott) b______________________.
6 Companies like Coca Cola, IBM, Apple, Google are all (conscious) a________________ that (Markenbekanntheit) b______________ a____________________ is extremely
valuable.
7 Any company’s (financial records) a______________________ have to be 100% (exact) a_____________________ . A company cannot (s. leisten) _______________
to have any (Ungenauigkeit) _i______________________ .
8 You are all (besuchen) a_________________ courses at this university.
9 Eating and drinking is most important; in business it’s known as f & b; the food and b______________________ industry.
10 I’m afraid a new problem has (aufkommen) _____________ on this project.
11 On _b______________ of the company, Thank you all for coming to the shareholder meeting today.
12 I’m afraid you can’t speak to the MD; he’s (overseas) a_____________________ this week.(That’s true, but (eigentlich) a____________________ he’s on holiday, not on business).
13 We’ve got an important negotiating session next week, and I’d like to meet the key people in _a____________________ of the main event, so that I get a chance to talk to them
beforehand. I know we might have to (entgegenkommen) _a_____________________ them on some points, so we might have to (change a little) a________________ our strategy.
14 I don’t like John’s (Einstellung) a_______________ towards our new working practices.