Describing Financial Performance in English

Describing Financial Performance in English was designed specifically for accountants who are non-native English speakers. This course equips students with the essential frameworks, structures, and technical vocabulary to present their company’s financial results confidently.

This course is ideal for students who need to explain their company’s performance from a profit and loss perspective, whether in written reports or verbal presentations. The concepts in this course can also be applied to cash flow and balance sheet analysis.

Course Methodology:

The course includes 20 comprehensive videos introducing various concepts and technical vocabulary. Each video is followed by a quiz to test your understanding. Students will then apply this knowledge to build a detailed report from scratch, based on the financial data of an imaginary company, ABC Packaging Ltd.

Upon completion, you will receive a reference guide that summarizes all key information learned and a framework that students can easily apply to present the results of their own company.

Course Content:

Fundamental grammar rules for reporting numbers

Headline numbers

Sentence structures for financial performance

Writing an engaging opening paragraph

Pyramid Concept: Telling the story and connecting important events

Collocations: Verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs for financial performance

Comparatives

Advanced vocabulary

Connector words

Technical vocabulary: sales, direct costs, margins, indirect costs and legal costs

Writing a closing paragraph

Prerequisites:

Intermediate English proficiency is necessary, all videos contain subtitles in English.

Basic knowledge of accounting principles.

Other information:

Students will have access for 365 days after enrolling

Students can post any questions in the platform which will be answered by Chris

Course duration (2 - 3 hours)