Unit 7 - Finance

Finance

Task 7 – Speaking.-  With a partner, act out the roles below, based on the dialogue from Task 6. Then switch roles.

Use language such as:

• Have you completed …
• Why is that?
• There’s no guarantee that ..

A: Hello, John. Have you completed the anual report?

B: Yes, I just finished. Actually I was about to call you. We have some red numbers in here.

A: Why is that?

B: Well, our sales wasn’t the best. There’s no guarantee that we sale everything.

A: Well, we have to do somenthing, thanks.

Task 8 – Writing.- You are a financial manager. Write a brief memo to the CEO explaining why there was a net loss in the last quarter (100 – 120 words). Talk about:

• Lower takings last quarter
• Why expenditure was high in the last quarter
• What you expect will happen in the next quarter

Memo:

This memo is written in order to explain you our net loss in the last quarter. Firs of all, we had lower takings last quarter because we didn't sell what we expected. Also, the expenditure of last quarter was extremly high because we were experimenting with the new product and we had costs. Fortunately now we had well defined how we have to make our product and we won't have extra costs, so we expect good numbers for next quarter.