Контрольная работа: Практический английский язык

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Business activities

1. Business is the exchange of goods and services, and money, on an arm’s length (objective) basis, that results in mutual benefit or profit for both parties involved. An individual engages in business because he or she believes that the rewards, or possible future sacrifices, of business.

2. Business activities are events that involve making and carrying out the operating, investing, and financing decisions that deal with business assets or obligations.

3. In a profit-seeking business, there are three types of business activities that correspond to three types of business decisions. Operating activities are the profit-making activities of the enterprise. They include those business activities that generate revenues, such as selling merchandise for cash or on credit or providing services for a fee. They also include activities that result in increased expenses, such as purchasing goods for manufacture or resale, paying wages, or combining goods and labor to manufacture products.

4. Investing activities include the purchase and a sale long-term asset in addition to other major items used in business operations. There are some investing institutions which include insurance companies, pension funds, investment trust and unit trusts. Together they account for a vast resource of funds, which are invested in securities and other assets for example, recent surveys indicate that the institutions own about 60 per cent of the shares of British companies and corporations listed on the London Stock Exchange.

5. Financing activities are activities that involve obtaining the cash or using other non-cash means to pay for investments in long-term assets, and to repay money borrowed from creditors, and to provide a return to owners.

1. Бизнес – это обмен товаров и услуг, а также денег, основанный на принципе вытянутой руки, имеет следствием взаимовыгоду для обеих сторон. Человек занимается бизнесом, потому что он или она придают большое значение вознаграждению или возможным будущим убыткам этого дела.

2. Деловые операции – явления, которые затрагивают и осуществляют управление, инвестирование и финансовые решения, имеющие дело с общими средствами или облигациями.

5. Финансовые операции – это операции, которые заключаются в получении наличных денег или использовании безналичных средств, чтобы окупить инвестиции долгосрочных вкладов и возвратить деньги, одолженные у кредиторов, а также обеспечении возвращения владельцам.

VI. Ответьте на следующие вопросы, а ответы письменно расположите так, чтобы они могли быть планом к тексту “Business activities” .

1. What are the main investing institutions?

2. Why does an individual engage in business?

3. What do financing activities mean?

4. How many types of business activities are there?

5. Whatisbusiness?

5. Business is the exchange of goods and services, and money, on an arm’s length (objective) basis, that results in mutual benefit or profit for both parties involved.

2. An individual engages in business because he or she believes that the rewards, or possible future sacrifices, of business.

4. There are three types of business activities.

1. The main investing institutions are insurance companies, pension funds, investment trust and unit trust.

3. Financing activities are activities that involve obtaining the cash or using other non-cash means to pay for investments in long-term assets, and to repay money borrowed from creditors, and to provide a return to owners.