Exercise 3 Complete the following sentences with a verb in an appropriate tense-form from the list below:

To acquire, to allocate, to approve, to assist, to attract, to concern, to dispense, to increase, to lead, to make, to receive, to require, to resolve, to see (2), to spend, to subdivide, to talk.

1. The majority of the career paths in finance … extensive, highly specialized knowledge and advanced degrees.

2. Over the past decades the field of finance … so much that it is generally … into three parts.

3. Every customer .... and .... with is a bank teller – the clerk who .... deposits and .... cash and information.

4. Bank loan officers .... Initial contacts with potential new customers and them in filling loan requests.

5. Branch managers .... each branch’s effort to attract new accounts, .... many requests and .... customer complaints.

6. Financial management is .... with how firms .... and .... funds and how these funds are … .

7. It is the investment area that.... people to finance.

8. People .... appealing opportunities in such positions as brokers, investment or industry analysts, investment counselors.

Exercise 4. Match the specialists in the left-hand column with their descriptions (definitions) in the right-hand column.

bank-teller	dealer or agent, employed to buy and sell for others;
branch manager	person who advises or recommends how to make investments to provide income or profit;
broker	person controlling or administrating a branch or part of a business;
budget analyst	financial specialist who controls the acquisition and allocation of funds;
comptroller	person who is engaged or skilled in large-scale financial operations;
credit manager	specialist who analyzes expected income and expenditure of a company over a financial year;
investment adviser	official in charge of funds;
financier	person who analyzes financial situation to see if certain investments are going to be profitable;
investment analyst	person who receives deposits and dispenses cash in a bank;
treasurer	specialist who directs or manages a credit department in a bank;

Exercise 5. Look quickly through the text once again and decide which paragraphs are about these subjects:

1. Careers in the investment area of finance.

2. The requirements to specialists in finance.

3. Level positions in financial management.

4. Specialists in finance who work in a bank.

Exercise 6. Join the beginnings (1-9) and the ends (A-I) to make meaningful statements reflecting the information from the text:

1. Bank loan officers make initial contacts with new customers and …

2. Branch managers lead …

3. Positions in financial institutions and markets …

4. A bank teller is the clerk who …

5. Managers'of bank operations are responsible for …

6. Most banks hire as tellers …

7. Branch managers must know how …

8. Bank tellers must be friendly with customers …

9. Branch managers also approve many requests …

1. ...can include everything from a bank teller to senior banking specialists.

2. ... receives deposits and dispenses cash and information.

3. ... branch’s effort to attract new accounts.

4. ... accurate with all their transactions and know about the other departments of the bank and the services they sell.

5. ...and resolve customer complaints.

6. .. .people with higher education or four-year university degrees.

7. ... assist them in filling loan requests and in developing a service relationship with the bank.

8. ... for processing checks, for the activities of tellers, and for handling customers’ problems with their checking accounts.

9. .. .know how to manage and motivate employees and how to represent the bank well in the local community.