Financial English for Finance Professionals I.
This seminar is tailor-made for finance professionals who need to communicate the technical aspects of their work in English with precision and confidence. This intensive seminar can focus on oral skills, writing skills, or both. Modules cover financial statements and other topics such as company and competitor performance, ratio analysis, pricing, taxation, company valuation, macroeconomics, fraud, financial markets, investment products and more.
Sample modules
• Clear numbers
• Describing Charts and Graphs
• Audit and Accounting
• Balance Sheet
• Income and Cash Flow Statements
• Shareholders and Share Prices
• Ratio Analysis
• Pricing
• Personal, Commercial and Investment Banking
• Central Banking and Monetary Policy
• Bonds, Futures and Derivatives
• Financial Planning
• Regulation
• Exchange Rates
• Insurance
• Taxation
• Business Plans
• Business idioms
II. Finance Basics for Novices
The goal of this course is to demystify financial jargon. Professionals in law, HR, marketing, communications, real estate and other areas learn the concepts behind principal finance terms so they can comfortably discuss financial objectives and results, manage and discuss budgets, and understand common issues in the press.
Sample modules
• How to read balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements
– understand how financial statements reflect company performance
• Basics of planning and budgeting
• Ratio analysis, company and competitor performance
• Fixed, variable, average and marginal costs
• Macroeconomics: interest rates, money supply, GNP/GDP, trade surplus/deficit, inflation
• Financial markets and investment products
• Regulation, compliance and constraints
• Credit risk, liquidity risk, market risk
• Capital markets and financial institutions
• Financial products overview
• Other topics
This seminar is tailor-made for finance professionals who need to communicate the technical aspects of their work in English with precision and confidence. This intensive seminar can focus on oral skills, writing skills, or both. Modules cover financial statements and other topics such as company and competitor performance, ratio analysis, pricing, taxation, company valuation, macroeconomics, fraud, financial markets, investment products and more.
Sample modules
• Clear numbers
• Describing Charts and Graphs
• Audit and Accounting
• Balance Sheet
• Income and Cash Flow Statements
• Shareholders and Share Prices
• Ratio Analysis
• Pricing
• Personal, Commercial and Investment Banking
• Central Banking and Monetary Policy
• Bonds, Futures and Derivatives
• Financial Planning
• Regulation
• Exchange Rates
• Insurance
• Taxation
• Business Plans
• Business idioms
II. Finance Basics for Novices
The goal of this course is to demystify financial jargon. Professionals in law, HR, marketing, communications, real estate and other areas learn the concepts behind principal finance terms so they can comfortably discuss financial objectives and results, manage and discuss budgets, and understand common issues in the press.
Sample modules
• How to read balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements
– understand how financial statements reflect company performance
• Basics of planning and budgeting
• Ratio analysis, company and competitor performance
• Fixed, variable, average and marginal costs
• Macroeconomics: interest rates, money supply, GNP/GDP, trade surplus/deficit, inflation
• Financial markets and investment products
• Regulation, compliance and constraints
• Credit risk, liquidity risk, market risk
• Capital markets and financial institutions
• Financial products overview
• Other topics