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English : Business English

• Learning business School English Lesson 1: Entrepreneur, venture capital, business funding, venture

• Learning business School English Lesson 2: Organization, manager, resources, allocate, negotiate

• Learning business School English Lesson 3: Trustworthy, honest dealer, crook, blacklist

• Learning business School English Lesson 4: Job applicant, job placement, job search, job interview

• Learning business School English Lesson 5: Analyst, motivator, negotiator, overseer

• Learning business School English Lesson 6: Pyramid scheme, ponzi scheme, scam, swindle

• Learning business School English Lesson 7: Training, staffing, motivating, disciplining, managing conflict

• Learning business School English Lesson 8: People skills, well liked, well rounded, versatile

• Learning business School English Lesson 9: System, approach, systematic approach

• Learning business School English Lesson 10: Financial, monetary, asset, liability

• Learning business School English Lesson 11: Evaluation, promotion, demotion, appraisal

• Learning business School English Lesson 12: Termination, severance pay, dismissal

• Learning business School English Lesson 13: Research, feasibility, feasibility study, business simulation

• Learning business School English Lesson 14: Standard, stock, commonplace, run of the mill

• Learning business School English Lesson 15: Planning, organizing, leading, controlling

• Learning business School English Lesson 16: Figurehead, spokesperson, monitor, liaison

• Learning business School English Lesson 17: SWOT Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats

• Learning business School English Lesson 18: Consistency, variable, variation, variables

• Learning business School English Lesson 19: Component, module, assembly, item, unit

• Learning business School English Lesson 20: Employee, turnover, absenteeism

• Learning business School English Lesson 21: Customer, servicing, client, client book

• Learning business School English Lesson 22: Marketing, exchange, value, message

• Learning business School English Lesson 23: Concept, conception, pricing, promotion

• Learning business School English Lesson 24: Marketing department, advertising, budget

• Learning business School English Lesson 25: Customer wants, needs, target market

• Learning business School English Lesson 26: Product, price, promotion, place

• Learning business School English Lesson 27: Satisfaction, servicing, retention

• Learning business School English Lesson 28: Mass customization, production

• Learning business School English Lesson 29: manufacture, reseller, wholesaler

• Learning business School English Lesson 30: Store owner, clerk, stock keeper, commission

• Learning business School English Lesson 31: Ethics, social responsibility, values and morals

• Learning business School English Lesson 32: Micromarketing, macromarketing, personal demand, aggregate and aggregate demand

• Learning business School English Lesson 33: Tangible product, intangible product, end user, product user and utility

• Learning business School English Lesson 34: Range of customers, market depth, scope and diversity

• Learning business School English Lesson 35: Sales, expenses, expenditures and profit

• Learning business School English Lesson 36: Firm, business firm, non-government organization (NGO) and non-profit organization

• Learning business School English Lesson 37: Strategic, strategic direction, corporate level and unit level

• Learning business School English Lesson 38: : Features, benefits, venue and marketing program

• Learning business School English Lesson 39: Industry, trend, industry trend, market segments and demand trend

• Learning business School English Lesson 40: Industry, industrial production, free market and socialist

• Learning business School English Lesson 41: Competitive, competition, vital, marketplace and specialist

• Learning business School English Lesson 42: Innovation, creativity, latest technology, consistency

• Learning business School English Lesson 43: Portfolio, business portfolio, facilitate, and coordinate

• Learning business School English Lesson 44: Leader, company, premiere, global leader, national and international

• Learning business School English Lesson 45: Local market, domestic market and international market

• Learning business School English Lesson 46: Goal, goal setting, goal achievement

• Learning business School English Lesson 47: Economic, economic theory and economic principles

• Learning business School English Lesson 48: Personnel, key personnel, executive, key executive

• Learning business School English Lesson 49: Culture, corporate culture, philosophy and corporate philosophy

• Learning business School English Lesson 50: Rise above, stand out, distinguish, and set apart from

• Learning business School English Lesson 51: Company logo, slogan, jingle, and mascot

• Learning business School English Lesson 52: Mission, vision, target, objective

• Learning business School English Lesson 53: Products, product lines, research and development (R&D), product development

• Learning business School English Lesson 54: Strategic business unit (SBU), business unit mission, business unit goal.

• Learning business School English Lesson 55: Star, dog, cash cow, laggard

• Learning business School English Lesson 56: Dominant, lagging, on-par

• Learning business School English Lesson 57: Core competencies, competitive advantage, niche

• Learning business School English Lesson 58: Invest, divest, acquire, and acquisition

• Learning business School English Lesson 59: Market share, gain market share and lose market share

• Learning business School English Lesson 60: Quality, quality control, benchmark, benchmarking

• Learning business School English Lesson 61: Company division, company department, department head and supervisor

• Learning business School English Lesson 62: Primary market research, secondary market research

• Learning business School English Lesson 63: Tactics, deviation, re-focus

• Learning business School English Lesson 64: Unique, distinct, substitute, substitution

• Learning business School English Lesson 65: Biography, experience, experienced, inexperienced

• Learning business School English Lesson 66: Document, report, and file

• Learning business School English Lesson 67: Dedication, attitude and interpersonal communiation.

• Learning business School English Lesson 68: Projections, sales projections $60m (million) 2014 sales projections. 5-year sales projections.

• Learning business School English Lesson 69: Product life cycle: Introduction, growth, maturity, and decline.

• Learning business School English Lesson 70: business life cycle: Introduction, growth, maturity, and decline.

• Learning business School English Lesson 71: Startup, new venture, financing and angel investor.

• Learning business School English Lesson 72: Private capital, public capital and government-backed

• Learning business School English Lesson 73: Invention, idea, inventor, protection

• Learning business School English Lesson 74: National awareness, international awareness, growth opportunities, synergies

• Learning business School English Lesson 75: Industry veteran, seasoned professional, grey hair, business mogul

• Learning business School English Lesson 76: Stand-alone product, complimentary products, boxed set, and bulk order

• Learning business School English Lesson 77: Commodity, commoditization, franchise, moat

• Learning business School English Lesson 78: Premium pricing, value pricing, dumping, anti-dumping laws

• Learning business School English Lesson 79: Total sales, same-store sales, year-over-year (Y-o-Y) comparisons

• Learning business School English Lesson 80: Market leader, first-mover, innovator and cutting-edge

• Learning business School English Lesson 81: Information age, digital revolution, e-business, e-commerce, bricks n clicks

• Learning business School English Lesson 82: Demographics, median age, average age

• Learning business School English Lesson 83: Median household income, assets, liabilities, net worth (Assets liabilities = Net Worth)

• Learning business School English Lesson 84: Census, generation X, baby boomers, metropolitan, ethnic diversity

• Learning business School English Lesson 85: Homogenous, attitudes, culture, cultural values

• Learning business School English Lesson 86: Macroeconomics, microeconomics, economist, think-tank

• Learning business School English Lesson 87: Gross income, pretax income, disposable income, net income, discretionary income

• Learning business School English Lesson 88: Perfect competition, oligopoly, monopoly, duopoly, monopolistic competition

• Learning business School English Lesson 89: Government regulations, regulator, regulatory body, price protection

• Learning business School English Lesson 90: Bargaining power, suppliers, buyers, rivalries, barriers to entry, substitutes

• Learning business School English Lesson 91: business model, retailer, wholesaler, manufacturing, brokerage

• Learning business School English Lesson 92: business model, consignment, royalties, distribution, dealership

• Learning business School English Lesson 93: Restructuring, layoffs, merger, takeover, buyout

• Learning business School English Lesson 94: Tall corporate structure, lean corporate structure (flat corporate structure), and bureaucracy

• Learning business School English Lesson 95: Citizen, consumer, customer and workforce.

• Learning business School English Lesson 96: Bidding process, an estimate, bid-rigging, no-bid contract, price gouging

• Learning business School English Lesson 97: Buyer beware, caveat emptor, safety standards

• Learning business School English Lesson 98: Product return, warranty, warranty claim

• Learning business School English Lesson 99: Product introduction, discontinue, product recall and replacement parts

• Learning business School English Lesson 100: Stealing, trademarks, copyright

• Learning business School English Lesson 101: NAFTA, World Trade Organization (WTO), European Union (EU), Euro Zone

• Learning business School English Lesson 102: Currency market, forex, spread, exchange rate

• Learning business School English Lesson 103: Direct investment, joint venture, licensing

• Learning business School English Lesson 104: Motivation, subliminal perception, perceived risk

• Learning business School English Lesson 105: Brand loyalty, word of mouth, and family decision making

• Learning business School English Lesson 106: Global trade, quotas, tariffs, protectionism

• Learning business School English Lesson 107: Gross domestic product (GDP), imports, exports, balance of trade

• Learning business School English Lesson 108: Association, trade group, International Standards Association (ISO)

• Learning business School English Lesson 109: Code of ethics, code of conduct, whistleblower

• Learning business School English Lesson 110: Closely guarded trade secrets, espionage, bribery

• Learning business School English Lesson 111: Free trade, reciprocity, supply partnership, gatekeeper

• Learning business School English Lesson 112: Survey, focus group, observation, experiment

• Learning business School English Lesson 113: Product positioning, private label, generic brand, brand (brand name)

• Learning business School English Lesson 114: Variable costs, fixed costs, total cost and marginal cost

• Learning business School English Lesson 115: Break-even point!

• Learning business School English Lesson 116: Intermodal transportation, air, rail, truck, courier and boat

• Learning business School English Lesson 117: Shipping, freight, FOB Origin, FOB Destination, insurance

• Learning business School English Lesson 118: Freight forwarder, logicstics, Ocean freight, LTL Less than truckload, FTL Full truckload, LCL Less than container load, FCL full container load

• Learning business School English Lesson 119: Demings, zero-defects, six sigma, just-in-time inventory management system

• Learning business School English Lesson 120: Shrinkage, strip mall, shopping centre, industrial park

• Learning business School English Lesson 121: Economics, supply, demand, price

• Learning business School English Lesson 122: Scarcity, quantity supplied, quantity demanded (Economics)

• Learning business School English Lesson 123: Price elasticity, elastic demand, inelastic demand (Economics)

• Learning business School English Lesson 124: The business cycle, expansion, peak (top), contraction, trough (bottom)

• Learning business School English Lesson 125: Opportunity, opportunity cost, factors of production (raw materials, machines, labour, services, capital, land and enterprise

• Learning business School English Lesson 126: Market equilibrium, financial crisis, supply = demand, federal reserve, peak oil, market failure

• Learning business School English Lesson 127: Adam Smith, invisible hand, free market, self-regulating (Economics)

• Learning business School English Lesson 128: Karl Marx, marxism, socialism, anti-capitalism

• Learning business School English Lesson 129: John Maynard Keynes, Keynesian economics, government intervention, business cycle.

• Learning business School English Lesson 130: Thomas Malthus, malthusian, peak, geometrically, outstripping

• Learning business School English Lesson 131: Minimum wage, unemployment, economies of scale and marginal cost

• Learning business School English Lesson 132: Labour (labor) market, full employment, natural unemployment

• Learning business School English Lesson 133: Government-reported unemployment, shadow stats, part time workers, discouraged workers

• Learning business School English Lesson 134: Inflation rate, core inflation, substitution, adjustments for quality

• Learning business School English Lesson 135: Austrian economics, free market, free will, collective decisions

• Learning business School English Lesson 136: Target overnight rate, easing

• Learning business School English Lesson 137: Money supply, m1, m2, m3, mzm, cash, savings deposits, demand deposits, GICs, bank account

• Learning business School English Lesson 138: Fractional-reserve banking, print money, expand the money supply, multiplication effect

• Learning business School English Lesson 139: Quantitative easing, printing money, expand the money supply, liquify the system, inflation

• Learning business School English Lesson 140: Hypeinflation (inflation greater than 50%), loose credit policy, printing money, lack of productive capacity or manufacturing capacity, debt default.

• Learning business School English Lesson 141: GDP (Gross domestic product), consumption, investment, government expenditures, exports - imports - inflation

• Learning business School English Lesson 142: Default, delinquent account, collection agency, civil

• Learning business School English Lesson 143: Consumer credit, high interest rates, credit card, line of credit, auto loans, payday loans, revolving credit

• Learning business School English Lesson 144: Debt service ratio, exports, annual interest expense

• Learning business School English Lesson 145: Deficit, surplus, tax revenues, expenditures, national debt, government debt, national debt clock

• Learning business School English Lesson 146: Long term (manufacturing economy), short term (consumer economy)

• Learning business School English Lesson 147: debt crisis, interest payments, debt to GDP, hyperinflate

• Learning business School English Lesson 148: G20, G20 meeting, 85% of Global GDP, stimulus

• Learning business School English Lesson 149: IMF, International Monetary Fund, SDRs Special drawing rights, economic assistance

• Learning business School English Lesson 150: Yield curve, short rates and long rates

• Learning business School English Lesson 151: Salesperson, sales call, salespeople, meet with customers

• Learning business School English Lesson 152: Agent, broker, commission salesperson, manufacturer's agents

• Learning business School English Lesson 153: Inside sales, sales desk, inside sales reps, inside salesperson

• Learning business School English Lesson 154: Travelling salesperson, on the road, pound the pavement

• Learning business School English Lesson 155: Sales territory, client book and contact list

• Learning business School English Lesson 156: Gatekeeper, receptionist, secretary, appointment

• Learning business School English Lesson 157: Integrity, honesty ,accountability

• Learning business School English Lesson 158: Features, benefits, sales pitch/value message, needs assessment

• Learning business School English Lesson 159: Verbal communication, nonverbal communication, sign language

• Learning business School English Lesson 160: Sales presentation, brochure, pamphlet, business card

• Learning business School English Lesson 161: Employee training, orientation, probationary period

• Learning business School English Lesson 162: Deception, misleading, divulging confidential information, withholding information

• Learning business School English Lesson 163: conflict of interest, improper use of company funds, fraud

• Learning business School English Lesson 164: Bribes/bribery, kickbacks and money laundering

• Learning business School English Lesson 165: Expense account, mileage logging, reported expenses

• Learning business School English Lesson 166: OEM (original equipment manufacturer), MRO (Maintenance, repair and operations)

• Learning business School English Lesson 167: Upselling, bait-and-switch, browbeating and lowballing

• Learning business School English Lesson 168: Company image, public opinion, market share, gaining market share, losing market share, giving up market share

• Learning business School English Lesson 169: Turnaround, sales target, bonus, conversion rate

• Learning business School English Lesson 170: Letters of credit, beneficiary, advising bank, issuing bank

• Learning business School English Lesson 171: Sales, revenues, bad debts, writeoffs, reported sales, loan losses

• Learning business School English Lesson 172: Accounts receivable (A/R), Net A/R, provision for loan losses, receivables turnover

• Learning business School English Lesson 173: Average collection period, accounts receivable (A/R), average daily credit sales

• Learning business School English Lesson 174: Cost of goods sold (COGS), inventory

• Learning business School English Lesson 175: Inventory turnover, cost of goods sold (COGS), Inventory

• Learning business School English Lesson 176: Capital asset turnover ratio. Total Sales/Capital Assets

• Learning business School English Lesson 177: Total asset turnover = total sales / total assets

• Learning business School English Lesson 178: Debt to Assets ratio = debt/assets

• Learning business School English Lesson 179: Times Interest Earned (TIE), Income before interest and tax (IBT, or EBIT)/interest.

• Learning business School English Lesson 180: Fixed charges coverage, income before fixed charges and tax/fixed charges

• Learning business School English Lesson 181: Memo, letter, invoice, bill

• Learning business School English Lesson 182: Franchise business, franchiser, franchisee, royalties

• Learning business School English Lesson 183: Project management, project head/leader, budget, timeline/timetable

• Learning business School English Lesson 184: Financial projections, pro forma financial statements, estimates

• Learning business School English Lesson 185: Sole proprietor, partnership, corporation, limited liability

• Learning business School English Lesson 186: Chairman, board of directors, chief executive officer (CEO), president

• Learning business School English Lesson 187: Chief financial officer, COO, CIO, CTO

• Learning business School English Lesson 188: Fringe benefits, employment insurance, pension plan, health insurance

• Learning business School English Lesson 189: Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), glass ceiling, and leverage

• Learning business School English Lesson 190: Cash flow, cash inflows cash outflows

• Learning business School English Lesson 191: Securities, stocks, bonds, mutual funds

• Learning business School English Lesson 192: Investment dealer, financial intermediary, capital, savings, savings rate

• Learning business School English Lesson 193: Monetary policy, fiscal policy, productivity = GDP/ # hours worked.

• Learning business School English Lesson 194: Retail investor, institutional investor, brokerage, private wealth management

• Learning business School English Lesson 195: Fixed income, t-bills, treasury bonds, municipal bonds, corporate bonds

• Learning business School English Lesson 196: Interest, dividends, distributions, capital gains

• Learning business School English Lesson 197: Bond, debenture, mortgage, commercial paper

• Learning business School English Lesson 198: Common stock (shares), preferred stock (shares), convertible shares, equity investment

• Learning business School English Lesson 199: Senior debt, unsecured debt, subordinated debt, mezzanine debt, junk debt/junk bonds

• Learning business School English Lesson 200: Executive compensation, shareholder vote, annual meeting

• Learning business School English Lesson 201: Primary market, secondary market, Initial Public Offering (IPO)

• Learning business School English Lesson 202: Investment advisor, financial planner, investment counsel, consultant

• Learning business School English Lesson 203: Open ended fund, closed end fund, investment vehicle, pooled

• Learning business School English Lesson 204: Issuer, investors, investment bank, manage the offering, syndicate

• Learning business School English Lesson 205: Stock exchange or stock market, listed company, ``over the counter`` OTC, Unlisted company

• Learning business School English Lesson 206: Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), TSX Venture Exchange, Bay street, New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), NASDAQ, Wall Street

• Learning business School English Lesson 207: Commodity Exchange, futures, options, Wheat, corn, orange juice, nickel, silver, copper, lumber and ethanol

• Learning business School English Lesson 208: Liquidity, liquid market, small fluctuations, frequent sales, narrow spreads

• Learning business School English Lesson 209: Going public, going private, raise capital, taken out

• Learning business School English Lesson 210: Volatility, volatility index (VIX), high volatility, low volatility

• Learning business School English Lesson 211: Ordering Materials #1

• Learning business School English Lesson 212: Ordering Materials #2