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Can You See the Problem???
Jul 7th
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uguram impreuna cu Edukube seria de workshop-uri scurte destinate imbunatatirii abilitatilor de comunicare, organizare, rezolvare de probleme in echipa! In acelasi timp vom comunica in limba engleza, concentrandu-ne pe activitati care implica vocabularul de Business English.
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Word of the Day
Mar 9th
Current assets - (noun phrase) – Value of cash, stock, receivables etc. that could be converted to cash within 1 year.
e.g.
“The financial director asked for an evaluation of the current assets to be performed.”
Word of the Day
Mar 2nd
Counterfoil – (noun) – the “green” or “yellow” part of a cheque or payment order is received from the bank and kept as a payment evidence.
e.g. “Please submit the scanned counterfoil of the payment order after processing the payment.”
Word of the Day
Feb 23rd
Competence gap – noun phrase – the sensible difference between the desired level of competence that is required from an employee and what he/she actually can deliver.
e.g. “We must find the root cause of this competence gap in our department and sort it out“.
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Word of the Day
Feb 15th
CFR - Cost and Freight – (named destination port) -The selling company will pay the costs and freight to ship the goods to the destination port.
e.g. “As per contract, they shipped the ordered goods CFR“.
(CFR and other commercial terms are to be found in INCOTERMS, a series of international commercial vocabulary, published by the International Commercial Chamber).
Word ofthe Day
Feb 12th
CAB
CAB - one of acronyms used for product or service during a sales presentation. It stands for the sequence “Characteristics – Advantages - Benefits”.
e.g.: ” Use the CAB sequence when presenting our new software to the client”.
Word of the Day
Feb 10th
C
cash cow – noun – a product selling very well, making a substantial contribution to the company profit.
e.g. “This is not our state-of-the-art cleaner, but it is widely recognized as best value for money, so it’s our cash cow“.
or “While our banking division is experiencing an downturn in this crunch days, the legal advisory is our cash cow“.
Word of the Day
Feb 9th
Buyout - noun – the purchase of a controlling interest (or major stake) of a company’s shares.
e.g. ” After the buyout, the major shareholder will integrate the newly acquired company with his group”.
Word of the Day
Feb 8th
Buy in – verb, noun – to obtain involvement of a certain person or group; to convince.
e.g. “Did you get the management buy-in? That’s very important for this project!”
Word of the Day
Feb 4th
Big bath – noun phrase – an accounting practice to make a certain year’s results seem worse by increasing expenditures and selling the assets.
e.g. ” After the big bath in the 2009 books, the balance sheet of 2010 will look much better.”
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