Language skills
English
- Accounting, math, analysis, law, finance theory
w:Analysis builds on w:accounting. w:Finance builds on analysis. Ability to do w:Fundamental analysis is a serious indogenous hard skill of the global professional. Ability to fluently read w:Financial statements is the bread & butter of w:analysts ♪ ♫ all over the w:World ♪ ♫ ♫ ...
- Procurement, purchasing, sourcing, logistics
- Customer interface, distribution, customer relationship management, marketing
w:Marketing mix aka. "The 4 p's" ( w:Product, w:Price, w:Place and w:Promotion ) is a timeless classic of w:Marketing.
- ) Product - What is it ( the product ). How does it fill a need with the consumer ?
- ) Price - How much ?
- ) Place - Where from ? Order online in one of millions of webshoppes, specialist boutique, hypermarket, ?
- ) Promotion - Advertising, PR but also promotional portion that is clearly done by those in a purely sales by function description.
Advertising has two roles:
- Keep the consumers informed of prices and offerings
- To do brand enhancement and post-sales brand image reinforcement
Sales
Management, project management, human management, business management
Markets, banking, finance and investments
Market slang contains a lot of synonyms and words with overlapping meanings ( e.g. capital, equity, shares, stock, investments, holdings, assets etc. almost used interchangeably ) and could be argued that this is done intentionally to render investorspeak non-understandable for the non-investor. Like all cliques and guilds ( lawyers, doctrors etc. ) develop language to make their trade harder for others ( outsiders ) to understand.
Language tools and resources
- http://www.onelook.com - look up English words in English from over 500 dictionaries with one search
- http://www.etymonline.com - look up etymologies of English lang words. Start with etymology of the word "business"
- http://www.wordreference.com - free high quality dictionaries
- http://www.memrise.com - Language learning environment with a plethora of learning programs
Recommended reading
- w:The Stock Exchange (book) written by w:Max Weber in 1894-1896 in what is now w:Germany at under 100 pages it was originally published as a 2-part informational leaflets for workers suspicious and out-of-the-loop in of the ways of the bourses it remains to this date a very relevant and almost essential read should you want begin to understand the flavours of modern w:investment.
Finnish
- Suomenkielisen Wikipedian w:fi:Luokka:Liiketalous on merkittävä relevanttien artikkelien kokoelma.
- Finnish for Business Purposes ( in Finnish )
- Finnish for foreigners
Learn legal Finnish with translations
- Translations of finnish laws and regulations at finlex.fi compare Legistlation of Republic of Finland and more onlinein Finnish and Swedish
Swedish
French
- Français pour debutants 1 - Français pour debutants 2 - Fraçais intermediaire 1 - Fraçais intermediaire 2 - Business French - French Business Communication
Places
- Library of The Parliament of Finland is situated in the "Postitalo" right at the core of Helsinki (map). In addition to having all laws and all regulations legistlated by the parliament, they offer wide variety of weekly and monthly magazines from all over the world. Free entry.