Business English: Financial and Corporate Foundations
Core accounting, finance, ownership, transaction, and company-structure vocabulary for interpreting ordinary business writing.
A curated Words list.
30 words
English · Experimental / limited support
| Sense and definition | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| asset | English | NOUN |
Sense 1 of 5A thing or quality that has value, especially one that generates cash flows. |
| liability | English | NOUN |
Sense 1 of 6An obligation, debt or responsibility owed to someone. |
| equity | English | NOUN |
Sense 7 of 9Ownership interest in a company as determined by subtracting liabilities from assets. |
| revenue | English | NOUN |
No sense selectedNo definition is shown: the meaning this list is about spans several of this word’s 6 senses, so no one of them is it. |
| expense | English | NOUN |
No sense selectedNo definition is shown: the source records no sense of this word that is the meaning this list is about. |
| profit | English | NOUN |
Sense 1 of 3Total income or cash flow minus expenditures. The money or other benefit a non-governmental organization or individual receives in exchange for products and services sold at an advertised price. |
| loss | English | NOUN |
No sense selectedNo definition is shown: the meaning this list is about spans several of this word’s 8 senses, so no one of them is it. |
| cash flow | English | NOUN |
Sense 1 of 2The sum of cash revenues and expenditures over a period of time. |
| balance sheet | English | NOUN |
Sense 1 of 1A summary of a person's or organization's assets, liabilities and equity as of a specific date. |
| income statement | English | NOUN |
Sense 1 of 1A calculation which shows the profit or loss of an accounting unit (company, municipality, foundation etc.) during a specific period of time, providing a summary of how the profit or loss is calculated from gross revenue and expenses. |
| invoice | English | NOUN |
Sense 1 of 4A bill; a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer indicating the products, quantities and agreed prices for products or services that the seller has already provided the buyer with. An invoice indicates that, unless paid in advance, payment is due by the buyer to the seller, according to the agreed terms. |
| receivable | English | NOUN |
Sense 1 of 2A debt owed, usually to a business, from the perspective of that business. |
| payable | English | NOUN |
Sense 1 of 2Debts owed by a business; liabilities. |
| inventory | English | NOUN |
Sense 1 of 5The stock of an item on hand at a particular location or business. |
| margin | English | NOUN |
Sense 6 of 9The yield or profit; the selling price minus the cost of production. |
| markup | English | NOUN |
Sense 1 of 4The percentage or amount by which a seller hikes up their buy-in price when determining their selling price. |
| overhead | English | NOUN |
Sense 1 of 11The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided. |
| capital | English | NOUN |
Sense 1 of 8Money and wealth: the means to acquire or produce goods and services, especially in a non-barter system. |
| debt | English | NOUN |
Sense 3 of 4Money that one person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction. |
| interest | English | NOUN |
Sense 1 of 11The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed. |
| principal | English | NOUN |
Sense 1 of 15The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated. |
| dividend | English | NOUN |
Sense 1 of 3A cash payment of money by a company to its shareholders, usually made periodically (e.g., quarterly or annually). |
| share | English | NOUN |
Sense 2 of 5A financial instrument that shows that one owns a part of a company that provides the benefit of limited liability. |
| stakeholder | English | NOUN |
Sense 3 of 3A person or organisation with a legitimate interest (a stake) in a given situation, action or enterprise. |
| shareholder | English | NOUN |
Sense 1 of 1One who owns shares of stock in a corporation. |
| merger | English | NOUN |
Sense 2 of 4The legal union of two or more corporations into a single entity, typically assets and liabilities being assumed by the buying party. |
| acquisition | English | NOUN |
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| subsidiary | English | NOUN |
Sense 1 of 3A company owned by a parent company or a holding company, also called daughter company or sister company. |
| turnover | English | NOUN |
Sense 1 of 9The amount of money taken as sales transacted in a given period. |
| liquidity | English | NOUN |
No sense selectedNo definition is shown: the meaning this list is about spans several of this word’s 4 senses, so no one of them is it. |