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BEP 356 – 会计英语: 讨论税收 (2)

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BEP 356 - 金融英语: 讨论税收 2

欢迎回到Business English Pod，今天的课程 accounting English vocabulary for discussing taxes.

Spring is a busy time for accountants in the U.S. and many other countries. That’s because spring is when corporations and individuals have to file a tax return with the government. It’s our yearly reminder that we don’t get to keep everything we earn.

当然, those busy accountants aren’t just calculating your revenue and costs. They’re looking for ways to reduce the amount you – or your business – have to pay in tax. And that’s why the chatter around offices and board rooms is all about ways to avoid handing over too much money to the tax man.

Listen to these conversations and you’ll notice many useful expressions. 例如, I’ve already used the phrase “file a tax return.” That verb “file” always goes with “return” when we talk about our annual submission to the government. You can learn those words together, as one expression or “collocation.”

A collocation is just a natural combination of words that native English speakers learn as a chunk. 和 英语搭配, we don’t have to go searching for every word in our brain. 代替, we pull out a string of words that matches our intended meaning. Learning these strings of words is more efficient, and will make you sound more natural. As you listen to today’s conversation, try to pick out some of these collocations and we’ll discuss them later in the debrief.

在对话框中, we’ll continue with a conversation about the tax situation of a company called Brando Equipment. Christie has been giving an update to two senior managers: Glen and Ivana. 上次, Christie gave them an overall picture of the tax situation, and today she’s providing more detail.

听力问题

1. What does Christie say is one factor that increased their reported income?
2. What helped reduce the company’s reported income by about $50,000?
3. What important issue does Ivana want to discuss in more detail at the end of the dialog?”

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BEP 355 – 会计英语: 讨论税收 (1)

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BEP 355 - 金融英语: 讨论税收 1

欢迎回到Business English Pod，今天的课程 accounting English for discussing taxes.

There’s an old saying in English that “nothing is certain except death and taxes.” 但, 虽然税收是确定的, 您需要支付的确切金额不是. 只要问任何会计师. 对于公司和个人, 有各种各样的方法来降低您的税单. 较低的税单意味着我们口袋里有更多的钱, 或在我们股东的口袋里. 为此原因, 税收是一个热门话题, 尤其是在春季，大多数税款到期.

在这个 accounting English 课, 我们将听白兰度设备公司的三位经理讨论他们的税收情况. 谈话中, 经理们使用很多与税收相关的常用表达方式. We call these expressions “collocations.” A collocation is just a group of words that go together naturally.

Some English collocations, 例如“抓住机会,” 被广泛使用. 但是许多搭配是特定于某个工作领域或主题的. 并从事该领域或讨论该主题, 您需要了解这些特殊表达. 说到税收, 例如, 你需要知道我们使用动词“文件” 与“税” 谈谈我们向政府提交的年度报告. 在不同的领域学习类似的搭配会发展您的词汇量，并帮助您听起来更自然.

在对话框中, 我们会听到克里斯蒂, 格伦, 和伊凡娜（Ivana）讨论白兰度设备（Brando Equipment）的税收情况, 他们公司最近购买的子公司. Glen和Ivana是公司经理, 克里斯蒂（Christie）是会计师. 三位同事在谈论白兰度设备欠多少税时，使用了许多针对税收的英语搭配和词汇.

听力问题

1. 伊万娜希望他们在本月30日之前完成什么工作?
2. 谈话即将开始时, 佳士得说的话比他们预期的要高?
3. 格伦想知道哪些关键信息?

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BEP 347 – 英语销售搭配 (部分 2)

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BEP 347 - 销售商务英语搭配 2)

欢迎回到Business English Pod，今天的课程 英语搭配 谈论销售.

销售量 从未如此艰难. 在数字时代, 人们注意力的竞争非常激烈. 客户拥有比以往更多的知识. 由于这些原因, 公司不能对他们的销售方法偷懒. 他们需要具有战略意义; they have to find new ways to manage customer relationships, and they need effective ways to track how they’re doing.

在本课中, we’ll listen to a pharmaceutical sales team discuss new strategies to improve and track their performance. 在他们的讨论中, you’ll hear a lot of what we call collocations. Collocations are just groups of words that combine naturally. 例如, if you want to say that someone finishes making a sale, you can say that he “closes a sale.” Everyone uses that verb “close.” Nobody says “shut” a sale or “do” a sale. The correct collocation is “close a sale.”

Native speakers learn and use these collocations naturally. And if you want to improve your vocabulary and sound more fluent, you can learn to use them too. 当您听对话时, try to pick out some of these collocations and we’ll discuss them later in the debrief.

在对话框中, we’ll listen to a discussion between Fran, Gus, and Nick. 在上一课中, the team discussed the need to improve their company’s sales. Now they’re talking about ways to do that. 在他们的讨论中, 他们使用很多 英语搭配 related to sales.

听力问题

1. What does Nick think his colleague Dennis is doing wrong?
2. What does Nick believe is an outdated way of measuring their success?
3. Nick 认为如果他们改进他们的绩效指标会发生什么?

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BEP 346 – 英语销售搭配 (部分 1)

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BEP 346 课 - Business English Sales Collocations (部分 1)

Hello and welcome back to Business English Pod for today’s lesson on 英语搭配 related to sales.

Sales is at the heart of any business. Without the hard work of salespeople who move prospects down the funnel, turning interest into sales, no business would even exist. But the game of sales is constantly changing. Good salespeople, and good companies, learn to adapt to changes in the marketplace, in consumer preferences, and in the competition.

在本课中, we’ll listen in on a sales team meeting in a pharmaceutical company. The team is discussing past performance and future strategy. 在他们的讨论中, they use many expressions that we call “collocations.” A collocation is just a natural combination of words that native speakers learn as one expression. 例如, the first collocation you’ll hear is “sales volume,” which refers to the number of units sold in a given period of time.

讲英语的母语人士会自动使用这样的搭配. And people in a certain field of work share an understanding of these special expressions specific to their area. By studying these collocations in different fields, 您将改善词汇量，听起来更加流利. 当您听对话时, 尝试挑选一些 英语搭配 我们将稍后在汇报中讨论它们.

在对话框中, we’ll hear Fran, Gus, and Nick. Fran is the sales manager, and she’s just finished talking about the past year’s sales results. Now she wants to talk about reasons for their disappointing results and strategies for improving them. The three colleagues use many 销售英语 collocations and vocabulary specific to the pharmaceutical industry.

听力问题

1. What is the group hoping to increase or improve by discussing sales performance and strategy?
2. What does Fran believe is the reason for a reasonably good third quarter?
3. What have better sales analytics helped the company understand?

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BEP 324 – 讨论公司绩效的英语 (2)

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BEP 324 课 - Business English Collocations for Describing Company Performance 2

欢迎回到 商务英语播客 for today’s Business English vocabulary lesson on how to describe company performance.

Every company’s goal is to make a profit. But how they go about that is different. Different industries, different business models, different approaches – There’s no simple recipe for success. And there’s no simple, single way to measure whether a company is performing well.

代替, we look at many different factors when we measure company performance. We’ve also got a lot of different expressions in English for discussing the topic. And many of these English expressions are what we call “collocations.”

What’s a collocation? 出色地, it’s just a natural combination of words. Ever heard the expressions “turn a profit” or “boost the bottom line?” We don’t say “grow a profit” or “up the bottom line.” Those simply aren’t natural collocations. And if you say something like that, you won’t sound natural.

So studying collocations is a great way to sound more natural with your vocabulary. You can learn combinations of words, rather than single words on their own. As you listen to the dialog today, try to pick out some of these collocations, 我们将稍后在汇报中讨论它们.

在对话框中, we’ll rejoin a meeting at a private equity firm. Three colleagues, 玛丽亚, 克劳迪娅, 和泰勒, are talking about some of the companies they’ve invested in. They’ll use lots of great collocations as they discuss the performance of these companies.

听力问题

1. What does Claudia think about SmartMoney?
2. What does Taylor think they should do before selling off SmartMoney?
3. What has Claudia been focusing on with Byron Industries?

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