Business English Test: Investing in Business

• This is a Business English Test for Licence 2 students at Alassane Ouattara University.
• The academic year is 2023-2024.
• The test duration is 1 hour and 15 minutes.
• The test focuses on the topic of investing in business.

Exercise 1

• Involves matching ciphers with letters.
• The goal is to create a meaningful business English text.
• The options for matching include:
  • A) loans
  • B) ownership
  • C) granting
  • D) capital
  • E) bills
  • F) management
  • G) raise
  • H) product

Text Completion

• Finance involves management of money.
• All businesses must have enough capital to pay their bills.
• For-profit businesses seek extra capital to expand their operations.
• Businesses can raise long-term capital by selling their product in the company.
• Common financial activities include granting, monitoring, and collecting on credit or loans to ensure customers pay bills on time.
• The financial division of any business must also establish a good working relationship with a bank which is especially important when a business wants to obtain a loan.

Answers

• The first seven answers are as follows:
  • 1: F
  • 2: D
  • 3: E
  • 4: G
  • 5: H
  • 6: C
  • 7: A