{"id":4048,"date":"2013-01-27T04:57:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T12:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/?p=4048"},"modified":"2023-01-08T23:47:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T07:47:13","slug":"business-english-pod-223-discussing-a-budget-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/27\/business-english-pod-223-discussing-a-budget-1\/","title":{"rendered":"BEP 223 &#8211; Financial English: Discussing a Budget (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4048-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/bizpod\/BEP223-Mob.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/bizpod\/BEP223-Mob.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/bizpod\/BEP223-Mob.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Welcome back to Business English Pod for today&#8217;s lesson on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/category\/vocabulary\/\" title=\"financial English vocabulary\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">financial English vocabulary<\/a> and discussing a budget.<\/p>\n<p>Budgets aren&#8217;t just for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/category\/finance-accounting\/\" title=\"Business English for Finance &#038; Accounting\">accountants<\/a>. Almost everyone in business has to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/category\/finance-accounting\/\" title=\"Financial English\">talk about money<\/a> and how to spend it. It doesn&#8217;t matter if you&#8217;re a manager with a million dollar budget or a field tech just tracking your expenses. You&#8217;ll be talking about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/category\/finance-accounting\/\" title=\"Business English Vocabulary for Finance &#038; Accounting\">money and budgets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, talk about budgets is everywhere. Turn on the news and it&#8217;s not hard to hear people discussing budget \u201ccuts\u201d or budget \u201creductions.\u201d You can hear about governments with budget \u201cdeficits\u201d and budget \u201csurpluses.\u201d Everyone&#8217;s worried about money, and in business, earning more often means spending less. These are the topics you&#8217;ll hear about today.<\/p>\n<p>Before we listen, let&#8217;s talk a little about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/category\/english-collocations\/\" title=\"Business English Collocations\">collocations<\/a>. A collocation is a group of words that native speakers often use together. A correct collocation sounds natural, while an incorrect collocation sounds unnatural. For example, in English we say \u201cbudget cuts\u201d to talk about lower spending. But we can&#8217;t say \u201cbudget slices\u201d or \u201cbudget chops,\u201d even though \u201cslice\u201d and \u201cchop\u201d mean \u201ccut.\u201d Those simply aren&#8217;t natural expressions.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll hear many useful collocations in today&#8217;s dialog. As you listen, try to pick out these natural combinations of words. Then we&#8217;ll explain what they mean and how to use them in the debrief.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re going to hear a conversation between two managers in the IT department of a large company and their boss. Kate and Harry are the managers, and Linda is the boss. They&#8217;re discussing the past year&#8217;s budget and how they spent their department&#8217;s money.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listening Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. What does Linda want to examine first?<br \/>\n2. What does Harry say about the large one-time cost the department had?<br \/>\n3. According to Linda, what is finance concerned about?<\/p>\n<p>[tp no_translate=&#8221;y&#8221;]<strong>Premium Members: <a href=\"https:\/\/businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter\/Premium2008\/transcripts\/BEP223SN-Budgets1.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">PDF Transcript<\/span><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/businessenglishpod.com\/learningcenter\/Premium2008\/quiz\/BEP223QIZ\/presentation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Quizzes<\/span><\/a> | <a href=\"\/learningcenter\/Premium2008\/phrasecasts\/BEP223PC.mp3\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">PhraseCast<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Download: <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/bizpod\/BEP223-Mob.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Podcast MP3<\/a><\/strong>[\/tp]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn Business English terms and collocations for discussing budgets and company 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