Answer Key

The life of a company – Practice 1

Choose the correct answer:
  1. We are planning to start full production at the recently opened Spanish  [subsidiary] in October.
  2. We reach  [break-even point] when we've got ten buyers. After that, everything is profit.
  3. The business is losing money and managers may be forced to  [close it down] .
  4. This year we will pay a  [dividend] of 25 CZK per share.
  5. The proportion of the total market which one company controls.  [market share]
  6. I work for myself. I have been  [self] -employed for ten years.
  7. We  [make] profit of $10 on each lamp
  8. Profits were falling until we decided to  [branch out] into computer games as well.
  9. She felt the organization was  [overspending] and wasting money on entertainment and luxury travel.
  10. Orson Welles was supposed to make of film version of Heart of Darkness, but he ran  [over] budget, and the project was cancelled.