BEO Unit 1-3 FRFR

ANNOUNCE

to officially make something known — … annual profits

ANNUAL

happening once a year — … profits; … report

BEAR

describing a market where prices are falling — … market

BULL

describing a market where prices are rising — … market

BUY

to obtain something by paying for it — … power

CONDITION(S)

the situation in which something exists or operates — market …; tough trading …

CONFIDENCE

belief that something will succeed or improve — consumer …

CONSUMER

relating to people who buy goods and services — … confidence; … spending

CORPORATE

relating to a company or business — … profits; … earnings

EMERGE

to become known — it … that …

EVIDENCE

facts showing that something is true — …

FIGURES

numerical information, especially financial information — released …

FINANCIAL

relating to money or finance — current … year

FIND

to discover or establish something

FULL

complete; covering an entire period — …-year results; …-year profits; …-year figures; …-year earnings

INFLATION

a general increase in prices — … rate

MARKET

a system where goods, services or assets are bought and sold — … conditions; bull …; bear …

POST

to officially report a financial result — the company … a profit/loss/earnings

POWER

ability to buy goods and services — purchasing …; buying …

PROFIT

money earned after costs are deducted — a … of + figure

PURCHASE

the act of buying something - … something

QUARTER

a three-month period in a financial year — first-… profits; first-… earnings

QUARTERLY

happening every three months — … profit; … earnings

RATE

a level or measurement of something — inflation …

RECORD

the highest or lowest level ever reached — on …; …-low interest rates; a … low

RELEASE

to make information officially available — … figures

REPORT

to give official information about something — the company … a loss/profit; … on …; annual …; earnings …

REVEAL

to make unknown information known — … that …

SHOW

to indicate or demonstrate something — data …; the report …; official figures …; the survey …; … signs of growth

SPEND

to use money — consumer …

SURVEY

a study that collects information, usually by asking questions — according to a …; the … found that …; a … by …

TAX

money paid to the government — pre-… profits

YEAR

a period of twelve months — current financial …; full-… results; full-… profits; full-… figures; full-… earningsBRING

CONTRACT

to become smaller — the economy …

DECLINE

to decrease — to …; a … in sales; a sharp …; a steep …

DIP

a small decrease — a … in prices; prices … by …%

DOWN

at a lower level — shares/prices were …; … …%; … by …%; … from … to …

DROP

a decrease; to decrease — a sharp … in sales; shares/prices … …%; … from … to …

EDGE

to move slightly — … down; … lower

FALL

to decrease — … by …%; … to …%; … sharply; a … of …%; a …% … in prices

LAG BEHIND

to perform less well than something else — shares …

LOSE

to decrease in value or amount — shares … …%; … ground

LOSS

money that has been lost — a … of …; net … money lost by a company — …-making company; …-making division

LOW

a low point or level — a two-week …; a three-month …; a five-year …

PLUMMET

to fall extremely quickly — shares …

PLUNGE

to fall suddenly and sharply — prices …; a … in prices

REDUCE

to make something smaller — … costs; … debt

SHARP

sudden and considerable — a … fall; a … decline; fall …

SHED

to lose or get rid of something — shares … …%

SHRINK

to become smaller — the economy …

SLIP

to decrease slightly — shares … …%

SLUMP

a large decrease; to decrease greatly — sales/profits …; a … in sales/profits

STEEP

large and sudden, especially a decrease — a … drop; a … decline

BUST

bankrupt or financially unsuccessful — went …

BANKRUPT

unable to pay debts — go …

BANKRUPTCY

the legal state of being unable to pay debts — file for …

COLLAPSE

a sudden failure or breakdown — close to …; on the brink of …

COMPETITION

rivalry between businesses — tough …

CONDITION(S)

circumstances affecting a business — tough trading …

COST

money needed to produce or obtain something — rising …; cut …; … cuts; …-cutting

CRASH

a sudden and severe fall — market …

CUT

to reduce — … costs; … prices; … jobs; cost …; job …

DEBT(S)

money owed — reduce …

DEFICIT

a situation where spending is greater than income — trade …; budget …

DISAPPOINTING

worse than expected — … sales

DOWNTURN

a period of economic decline — economic …

GO BUST

to fail financially — a firm …

JOB

paid employment — … cuts

MARKET

an economic or financial system

PERFORMANCE

how well something operates — poor …

POOR

below an acceptable or expected standard — … performance; … sales

PROFIT(S)

money earned after costs — … warning; issued a … warning

RED

a situation where a company is losing money — in/into the …

RESCUE

action to save a company from failure — … plan(s)

RESTRUCTURING

reorganizing a company to improve it — … plan(s)

RISE

an increase — … costs

RUN

to use up a supply — … out of time/money/oil/steam

SAVINGS

money saved by reducing spending

SLASH

to reduce drastically — … prices; … costs; … jobs

SLOW

to become less rapid — … growth; … down

SLOWDOWN

a reduction in the rate of growth or activity — a … in consumer spending

STRUGGLE

to have difficulty doing something — …ing to …

TOUGH

difficult or challenging — … trading conditions; … competition

TRADE

buying and selling goods and services — tough … conditions

WARNING

information that something bad may happen — profit(s) …; issued a profit …

WEAK

not strong or performing badly — … sales