Reading and listening

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26. Read these dialogues and complete them with the words in the box.

B: I'm ________ in a small electronics company.

I am responsible for keeping records of sales and purchases.

I enter every transaction into a ledger.

A: Could you tell what you do, please?

B: Yes, I'm _________ .

A: What does that involve?

B: Well the company has a budget – that's a sort of financial

plan for the amount of money it wants to spend on things,

things like salaries and materials. I help set the budget and

then I monitor it. I check that the company isn't spending

too much on one thing, or too little on another.

B: I'm _________ .

A: Yes, but what do you actually do?

B: Well, I work for an accountancy firm. I visit companies and

I check the financial statements prepared by the companies'

accountants.

A: So you don't work for the company itself?

B: No, I work for a firm of accountants. The company is our client.

B: I'm _________ . I work for a manufacturing company

and I'm responsible for the management of day-to-day

financial activities of the company. I monitor the

performance of each department and I check and analyse

the financial statements that the company's accountants

produce. I keep the management informed about

the states of the company's finances.

B: I'm ________ . I'm a specialist in tax regulations. I prepare

corporate tax returns for companies and income tax returns

for individuals – those are the tax statements that they have

to pay and sometimes I can show them ways to reduce the

amounts of tax they pay.

27. Listen to the dialogues and check.

28. The verbs in italics can be used with all the noun phrases on the right.

Underline the noun phrases the verb is used with in 26.

1.check the financial statements the accounts the details

2.set a target goals a budget

3.monitor the performance of something the cash flow a budget

4.prepare tax returns accounts written reports

5.keep a record track of something control of expenses

6.manage financial activities financial plans the cash flow

7.analyse accounts figures performance

29. Complete these sentences with suitable words or phrases from 28.

1.I keep a _____ of all the company's income and expenses.

2.Mr. Simmons prepares his clients' ______ and tells them how much money to pay the government.

3.Could you _______ these calculations for me, please? I don't think they are correct.

4.The company is monitoring the ________ of all its factories. Those that make a loss will be shut down.

5.I manage the company's _________ - the movement of money into and out of the company.

6.We are going to ________ a budget for this year. All new equipment must come within the budget.

7.The boss won't be satisfied if we just tell her our analysis of the figures. She expected us to prepare a _________ .