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Business English Test

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Bills to be paid as part of the normal course of business.






2. A name - term - sign - symbol - design or combination of these used to uniquely identify a producer's goods.






3. The first time a company offers its shares to the public.






4. The state of remaining unknown to most other people.






5. A place to live - work - stay in : rented/temporary/furnished accommodation.






6. A measure of the average time between failures in a system - the higher the amount - the more reliable the thing is.






7. The efforts to make a product seem different from rival products or even unique.






8. A shipment of goods to a consignee.






9. Series of questions designed to gather information on a certain topic.






10. The amount of money of a company's profits that is distributed to its shareholders.






11. A statisitical measure of how well a company is doing in a certain area.






12. Expenses arising during normal business operations.






13. A form of company which has a separate legal identity and limited liabilities.






14. The right to have your political view kept secret.






15. Events which are beyond the control of a carrier like war - earthquakes or floods.






16. Useable or acceptable.






17. General term for ships designed to carry cargo rather than passengers.






18. A small hotel or private house that rents out rooms to sleep in - including breakfast - at reasonable prices.






19. The categorization of potential customers into groups based on common characteristics.






20. Protective eyewear worn when working with chemicals or dangerous machines.






21. A portion - piece or segment of something that is representative of the whole.






22. The crime of deceiving someone to get money or good illegally.






23. One of the documents required by a firm to become a limited company.






24. Port where cargo enters a country and is unloaded.






25. In a business plan this is the change in the cash balance.






26. Surveillance tools installed on a computer without the users' consent.






27. The year as used in accounting which can begin and end in any month as the company sees fit.






28. A non-profit making organization which exists to support and help a particular group.






29. Abbreviation for a standardized container - Twenty-foot equivalent unit.






30. Property that a business owns - including cash and receivables - inventory etc.






31. Information officially declared secret - such as classified documents or material that are available only to particular people.






32. A document representing one unit of ownership in a corporation - mutual fund or limited partnership.






33. The right to say what you want without anyone stopping you.






34. The granting of power to perform various acts or duties.






35. A person who is involved in a situation in addition to the two main participants.






36. To unload and distribute some or all the contents of a rail car - container or trailer.






37. When you allow someone to start a specific business by using your products in exchange for a part of his profits.






38. Transporting something using different means of transport - e.g. first on a truck and then on a ship.






39. Cargo ships not specialised in one type of cargo unlike a full containership.






40. A response or reaction to a piece of information.






41. The monitoring or close observation of behaviour.






42. The benefit of larger scale production where costs are spread over more units which lowers the average unit cost.






43. Net profits divided by net worth or total equity.






44. Earnings which are reinvested in the company rather than paid out as dividends.






45. The organization that surveys and classifies ships for insurance companies.

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46. A test of a company's ability to meet its immediate cash requirements: short-term assets minus accounts receivable and inventory - divided by short-term liabilities.






47. Ships especially designed for trucks to drive into them using internal ramps.






48. Wages - salaries and other forms of employee compensation.






49. Ships with permanent container cells with little or no space for other cargo types.






50. A piece of information - for example how a certain product is made - which is only known to the company that makes it.