Додаток 3 перелік тем для усних повідомлень

1. Business Letters

2. Economy of Ukraine.

3. Searching for a Job. My future spatiality.

4. Money. Functions of Money.

5. Bank Organisation

6. Economy of Great Britain.

7. Economy of United States of America.

8. Computers and Internet

9. Types of Business Organisations.

10. Resume and Covering Letter.

11. Business. Forms of Business.

12. Manager’s Role

13. Business in Ukraine. Obstacles and Perspectives.

14. Presenting a Company. Modern Office.

15. Companies. The Structure of a Company.

16. Types of Companies in Great Britain.

17. Types of Companies in the USA.

18. Speaking Business over the Telephone. Business Etiquette.

19. The Role of Finance

20. Accounting and Bookkeeping.

21. Functional Areas of Business Organisations.

22. Supply and Demand.

23. Competition.

24. International Business

25. Marketing.

26. Different Economic Systems.

27. Mixed Economies.

28. Labour and Capital.

29. Golden Rules of Leadership. Business Ethics.

Додаток 4

ПЕРЕЛІК ЕКЗАМЕНАЦІЙНИХ ТЕМ ТА ПИТАНЬ ДО НИХ

WHAT IS ECONOMICS ABOUT

1. What is economics?

2. What does economics study?

3. What are the key terms of economics?

4. What does economics deal with?

5. What are economic products?

6. What is the difference between goods and services?

7. What are consumer goods intended for?

8. What are capital goods?

9. What does the term “value” mean in economics?

10. What does the term “wealth” mean in economics?

11. What is counted as wealth?

12. Why does utility of consumer goods vary from one person to another?

13. What is country’s total worth?

FACTORS OF PRODUCTION

1. What is the reason people cannot satisfy all their wants and needs?

2. What are the factors of production?

3. What does the term “land” mean?

4. What do economists think of land as a factor of production?

5. What is labor in economic theory?

6. What is the national labor force?

7. What does the size of labor depend on?

8. What categories does labor fall into?

9. What kind of work do unskilled workers perform?

10. What category do workers with mechanical ability fall into?

11. What kind of work are skilled workers able to do?

12. What is professional labor?

13. What is a wage rate?

14. What are the factors affecting the wage rate?

15. What is the third factor of production?

16. What is the difference between physical and financial capital?

17. When does production take place?

18. What is entrepreneurship?

19. What role do the entrepreneurs play?

ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

1. What do all societies have in common?

2. What does the survival of any society depend on?

3. What is an economic system?

4. What are all societies faced with?

5. What determines the type of any economic system?

6. What are the major kinds of economic systems?

7. How are the main economic questions decided in a society with a traditional economy?

8. What are the main advantage and disadvantage of a traditional economy?

9. What is a command economy?

10. What is the major advantage of a command economy?

11. What disadvantages does the command economy have?

12. What is a market economy?

13. How are the basic economic questions answered in a market economy?

14. What is the main incentive of a market economy?

15. What advantages does a market economy have?

MARKETS AND MARKET STRUCTURES

1. What was a market in ancient time?

2. What is a modern market?

3. When is a market created?

4. How do different markets operate?

5. How do economists classify markets?

6. What is a market structure defined by?

7. What are the names of different market structures?

8. What is pure competition?

9. What is monopolistic competition?

10. What separates monopolistic competition from pure competition?

11. What is oligopoly as a market structure?

12. What is monopoly?

MARKET CATEGORIES

(demand, supply, price)

1. What is demand?

2. What does the law of demand state?

3. How do prices affect the quantities demanded?

4. What is demand elasticity?

5. When is demand elastic?

6. When is demand inelastic?

7. What factors is demand influenced by?

8. What is supply?

9. What does the law of supply state?

10. How much of a product will suppliers offer for sale at different prices?

11. What factors is supply determined by?

12. What categories of costs is it important for a business to analyze?

13. What role do prices play in a market economy?

14. What two important economic functions do prices perform?

15. What characteristics do prices have in a market economy?

16. Why do buyers and sellers have the opposite intentions and hopes?

17. When does the adjustment process take place?

18. What is market equilibrium?

19. What messages do price increases and decreases send to producers of goods and services?

MONEY

1. What is money?

2. How does money function?

3. What is money as a medium of exchange?

4. What does money express as a measure of value?

5. How does money function as a store of value?

6. What forms of money are in use in the world today?

7. What does the term currency refer to?

8. What is the difference between coin and currency?

9. What are the most important characteristics of modern money?

TAXATION

1. What is the principal purpose of taxation?

2. What are the principles of taxation?

3. What do the principles of taxation state?

4. How are most taxes classified?

5. What are the features of proportional, progressive and regressive taxes?

6. What is a sales tax?

7. What is a main source of government revenue?

8. What is a tax assessor?

9. What are the criteria of taxation?

10. Why must government have criteria and standards when it comes about taxes?

11. What do people think of taxes?

BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

1. What is a business organization?

2. What is the main purpose of a business organization?

3. What are the major types of business organizations?

4. What is a sole proprietorship?

5. What are the advantages of a sole proprietorship?

6. What are the disadvantages of a sole proprietorship?

7. What is unlimited liability?

8. What is a partnership?

9. What forms of partnerships do you know?

10. What is the difference between a general partnership and limited partnership?

11. What are the advantages of a partnership?

12. What disadvantages do partnerships have?

13. What is a corporation?

14. What is necessary to form a corporation?

15. Who owns a corporation?

16. What are the advantages of corporate form of ownership?

17. What disadvantages do corporations have?

ECONOMY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

1. What role does the government play in the US economy? What does it provide?

2. What role does international trade play in the US economy?

3. What role does international trade play in the US economy?

4. What sectors can the US economy be divided into?

5. What do the US economy sectors deal with?

6. What are the leading categories of the US manufactured goods?

7. What is the largest sector of the US economy in terms of output and employment?

8. Why are transportation-related businesses considered to be an important part of the service industry?

9. What are the major mineral resources of the USA?

10. What can you say about the country's petroleum production?

11. What can you say about the US agriculture?

12. What makes the USA the world's richest agricultural nation?

13. Why is the USA self-sufficient in agricultural products?

14. What are the most wide-spread branches of animal husbandry?

15. Why is farming a big business in the USA?

ECONOMY OF GREAT BRITAIN

1. What type of the economy does Great Britain have?

2. What has been a key part of British economy for centuries?

3. What has its prosperity been dependent upon?

4. What can you say about the international trade of Great Britain?

5. What does Great Britain export and import?

6. What sectors can the British economy be divided into? What does each deal with?

7. Why is the country self-sufficient in energy?

8. What mineral resources does the country possess?

9. What is British agriculture known for?

10. Production of what goods does manufacturing cover?

11. What new industries has Britain made important advances in?

12. Why does Great Britain remain one of the most highly industrialized countries of the world?

13. Why is electronic data-processing equipment growing? What are the main electronic consumer goods produced in the UK?

14. What can you say about the central bank of England? What is it responsible for? How many commercial banks does Great Britain have?

15. Why does government support and promote tourism?

ECONOMY OF UKRAINE

1. What periods of economic development has Ukraine experienced since gaining its independence?

2. What mineral resources is Ukraine rich in?

3. What are the main branches of Ukrainian industry?

4. Why is steel industry the most important sector of the national economy?

5. What is produced at Ukrainian plants and factories?

6. What does Ukraine import and export?

7. Why is Ukraine dependent on energy imports?

8. Why does Ukraine play an important role in the energy security of Europe?

9. What should be done for Ukraine to join the ranks of the developed countries of the world?

10. What potential does Ukraine have?

11. What agricultural products does Ukraine export?

12. What does Ukraine’s livestock sector cover?

13. What sector can be regarded as the first priority in the Ukrainian economy?

14. What affects the level of agricultural productivity?

15. What do you think about the role of investments in agribusiness?