1. Financial terms
A: Match the definition
1. Money owed by one person or organization to another person or
organization –debt
2. A period of time when business activity decreases because the
economy is going badly –recession
3. Difference between the selling price of a product and the cost of
producing it –gross margin
4. A place where company shares are bought and sold ---stock
market
5. Money which people or organizations put into a business to make
a profit—investment
6. Equal parts into which the capital or ownership of a company is
divided—shares
B: Match the sentence halves
1. Earnings per share are a company’s profits divided by the
number of its shares.
2. A forecast is a description of what is likely to happen in the
future
3. Bankruptcy is when a person or organization is unable to pay
their debts
4. a dividend a part of the profits of a company paid to the
owners of shares
5. pre-tax profits are is the money a business makes before
payment to the government

2. 6. revenues are money which businesses receive from selling
goods or services
C: Complete this report with the terms from
exercises A and B
1. Pre – tax profits2. Forecast
3. Bankruptcy 4. Earning per share
5. Dividend 6. Shares
7. Investment 8. Profit
9. Gross margin 10. Debt
11. Bankruptcy 12. Revenues