Business vocabulary- Questions about business terms in English

These questions can be used in order to assess your students' knowledge of some business terms in the English language. Students can ask these questions in pairs or in groups. Afterwards, they should find the answers in books (e.g. English for Business Studies, Business Benchmark) or online.

Part 1

1.            What is venture capital?

2.            What does a business plan consist of?

3.            If you had venture capital, what type of business would you found?

4.            What is a break- even point?

5.            What is executive summary of a business plan?

6.            What is competitive advantage of a company?

7.            What are bonds?

8.            Who are creditors?

9.            What are dividends?

10.          What is recession or depression?

11.          What is flotation?

12.          What are market makers?

13.          What are hedge funds?

14.          What are derivatives?

15.          What is interest rate?

16.          What is income?

17.          What are liabilities?

18.          What are accrued, and what are deferred liabilities?

19.          What is accounting?

20.          What is auditing?

21.          What is bookkeeping?

22.          What is creative accounting?

23.          What is tax accounting?

24.          What is income statement?

25.          Who are market leaders?

26.          Who are market challengers?

27.          Who are market followers?

28.          What is USP?

29.          What is market segmentation?

30.          Who is an entrepreneur?

31.          What do you think about world economic crisis today?

32.          What do you think about Serbian market structure?

33.          Name the positions, terms and processes in banking which you know?

34.          What do you know about stock exchange?

Part 2

1.            What is the difference between a takeover, a merger and a buyout?

2.            If you could cooperate with another company, would you rather perform a takeover or a buyout? Why?

3.            What is a raid?

4.            What is a hostile takeover?

5.            What are conglomerates?

6.            What are listed companies?

7.            Which types of taxation do you know? Explain.

8.            What is the main idea of Milton Friedman?

9.            What is free enterprise?

10.          What is a tax haven?

11.          What is a business cycle?

12.          What is fiscal policy?

13.          What is monetary policy?

14.          What is the difference between fiscal and monetary policy?

15.          What is Keynesianism?

16.          What is the Great Depression?

17.          What is corporate social responsibility?

18.          Who are proponents?

19.          What is delayering?

20.          What is job sharing?

21.          What is rightsizing?

22.          What is flexible labour market?

23.          What is the difference between ‘appoint’ and ‘hire’?

24.          What are market forces?

25.          What is a floating exchange rate?

26.          What is purchasing power parity?

27.          What is currency speculation?

28.          What is futures contract?

29.          What are fluctuations?

30.          What is free trade?

31.          What is absolute advantage?

32.          What is infant industry?

33.          What is a trademark?

34.          What is copyright?

35.          How does social responsibility affect the profits of a company?