VV 11 – GAAP: Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

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In this episode of Video Vocab we take a look at financial English and accounting vocabulary related to the key components of GAAP or Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. GAAP is a set of rules followed by accountants in preparing companies’ financial statements.

First we’ll hear a short article introducing the vocabulary. Then we’ll go over each word in detail, with some example sentences to show how you can use the words. At the end of the video you’ll have a chance to review and practice your new vocabulary.

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CT 01 Advanced English Grammar – Perfect Tenses

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Chalk ‘n’ Talk is a new series of video lessons exploring advanced English grammar topics.

This lesson examines the use of perfect tenses in both the simple and continuous aspect – past, present and future forms. In grammatical terms, perfect tenses are used to refer to completed or finished events.

These videos were made by Brian Rhodes, an English teacher from Canada. As Brian said, “These lessons are dedicated to my past and present students who enjoy analyzing and studying English grammar. Lots of students would rather just ‘use’ the language, but some like to know the why’s and how’s of English.” Our thanks to Brian for allowing BEP to share this excellent series of videos with our audience.

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ET 04 – Business Writing: An Internal Bad News Message

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In this episode of Email Tune-up we’re looking at an email from Jenny, who is responsible for her company’s IT services. She has written the email to give her colleagues some bad news: the office email server will be “down” due to a technical problem. When a server goes “down”, it means the server has been taken offline for maintenance because of a problem.

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