Business English (Hard)

What does KPI stand for?

• Key Point Insurance

• Key Practical Indicator

• Key Performance Indicator

• Key Project of Index

A "Free Rider" is:

• a career

• a delivery guy

• someone profiting from another firm's economic loss

• someone using a good or a service without paying for it

"CSR" stands for:

• Corporate Social Responsibility

• Corporate Special Revenue

• Community Social Responsibility

• Corporate Sustainable Responsibility

"Overtrading" is:

• Implementing more businesses than can be supported by a firm's capital

• Selling more than the firm has in stock 

• A very risky selling procedure

• Supporting the firm's capital by implementing a window dressing

If you are outsourcing a service, then you are...

• asking other managers for advice

• buying a good or a service from a start up 

•  launching a new product on an already existent market

•  procuring a service from outside your firm

If you are insourcing, then you are...

• hiring new human resources

•  getting the service you need from a firm operating in the same field

• getting the good or service you need from your domestic sources 

•  widening your investors portfolio

What does "adjusting entries" mean in Italian?

• Scritture contabili rettificanti 

•  Note di credito

• Scritture contabili aggiuntive

•  Note integrative al bilancio

 A sales account who sells ice to Eskimos is...

•  a very good seller

•  a scammer

• an employee 

•  a quack