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 ♪ ♫ ♫ ...

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Procurement, purchasing, sourcing, logistics

• w:Procurement, w:purchasing, w:sourcing
• w:Modes of transport, w:Warehousing, logic, w:Logistics
• w:Supply chain management

Sail - Steamship (S/S) ( approx. 1770 - early 1900's ) - Motor Ship ( M/S) - w:Containerization ( 1960's) - LNG powered ships ( 2010's )

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.

1. ) Product - What is it ( the product ). How does it fill a need with the consumer ?
2. ) Price - How much ?
3. ) Place - Where from ? Order online in one of millions of webshoppes, specialist boutique, hypermarket,  ?
4. ) 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

Markets, banking, finance and investments

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.

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.

Economics

* Business Economics

• Micro & Macro
• w:Supply & w:demand
• Equilibriums, optimums and partial optimums
• Duoptimums, Pareto perfectness
• Mindless barrage of 2-D two variable linear curve thingies

Language tools

• 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

Finnish

• Suomenkielisen Wikipedian w:fi:Luokka:Liiketalous on merkittävä relevanttien artikkelien kokoelma.
• Finnish for Business Purposes ( in Finnish )
• Finnish for foreigners

Swedish

• Affärsvenska - Business Swedish - Swedish for foreigners

French

• Français pour debutants 1 - Français pour debutants 2 - Fraçais intermediaire 1 - Fraçais intermediaire 2 - Business French - French Business Communication