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English for Special Purposes
Finance English
Professional English for accounting, FP&A, treasury, banking, investments, audit, risk, and corporate finance.
- 8 modules
- 64 field terms
- Interactive practice
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Rehearse the language, response, and decision
Work through a three-step sequence: identify the field language, choose the strongest response, then select the next controlled decision move.
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Finance Communication: Drivers, Assumptions, Materiality, Risk
Finance English is decision language. Strong learners do not only state numbers; they explain what changed, why it changed, whether it matters, what is recurring, and what decision follows.
Revenue, Gross margin, Operating income, EBITDA
Financial Statements, Close, and Accounting Judgments
Financial statement conversations require precise links among income statement, balance sheet, cash flow, notes, accruals, revenue recognition, reserves, and internal controls.
Accrual, Deferred revenue, Working capital, Free cash flow
FP&A, Budgeting, Forecasting, and Variance Analysis
FP&A conversations live between accounting truth and business uncertainty. Learners need language for budget vs actuals, forecast risk, bridge analysis, sensitivity, scenarios, guidance, and management action.
Budget, Forecast, Run rate, Variance
Treasury, Cash, Liquidity, Working Capital, and FX
Treasury language connects operations, banking relationships, liquidity risk, funding strategy, covenant compliance, and market exposure. Cash is not the same as profit.
Bridge, Sensitivity, Scenario, Guidance
Markets, Investments, Performance, and Client Communication
Investment conversations require language for return, risk, benchmark, attribution, volatility, liquidity, duration, yield, spread, allocation, fees, and fair performance presentation.
Liquidity, Cash runway, Revolver, Covenant
Banking, Credit, Lending, and Counterparty Risk
Credit conversations are evidence-driven. Learners need language for borrower capacity, leverage, collateral, covenant package, probability of default, loss given default, concentration, and stress case.
DSO, DPO, Hedge, FX exposure
Controls, Audit, Compliance, Fraud, and Ethics
Finance teams must be precise when discussing control failures, audit evidence, policy exceptions, conflicts of interest, suspicious activity, and performance claims.
Return, Volatility, Liquidity, Yield
Valuation, M&A, Capital Allocation, and Executive Finance
Senior finance discussions often combine valuation, strategy, risk, capital structure, and narrative. Learners need language for assumptions, valuation methods, diligence findings, synergies, add-backs, WACC, NPV, IRR, and board recommendations.
Duration, Spread, Benchmark, Attribution
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