VIP Class Notes (Tibo)

numbers and graphs

review the pdf about how to read numbers and practice

+ pdf on how to read graphs
write a description on the line chart about smartphones and feature phones

review different movements : trend + speed
+ practice presenting charts

Key accounts represent 40% of our total sales / key accounts accounted for 40% of our total sales14 % of total budget
we planned a budget of 100 but our realized expenses are 110 so we are over the budget.

when having an amount in one currency state it and you can also state an equivalent in parenthesis

CNY700 (USD100)

Vocabulary

realized : real/ actually done
Our realized profit was xxxxx in january

axis (n) 轴
sales are on the vertical axis

market share : % of the market
the market share of iPhones decreased last year

Key (n) : place where you know what each color represents
as we can see from the key the red line represents our total sales

vertical (adj) top to bottom
A portrait is usually a vertical picture of someone

horizontal (adj) left to right
On the horizontal axis we have the date and on the vertical axis we see the total sales

represent (v) : correspond to
Key accounts represent 40% of our sales

account for (v) : correspond to (for numbers)
Services account for 20% of our profit

parenthesis (n) ()
I put the equivalent in USD in parenthesis

transfer rate  / conversion rate (n) : rate at which you change one currency for another
The transfer rate to convert CNY to USD is about 7

currency (n): one unit of money like CNY / USD / JPY…
My company has multi currency account.

coma (,):
big numbers are separated by a coma

slippers (n) 拖鞋
I like to wear slippers at home

Pronunciation

13-19 : end in een

x00 : hundred
x,000 : thousand
x,000,000 : million
x,000,000,000 : billion
x,000,000,000,000: trillion

When reading numbers start from the left and read until the coma then read the magnitude then repeat 

300,900 : three hundred thousand nine hundred
2,040,500 : two million forty thousand five hundred
95,523,625 : ninety five million five hundred twenty three thousand six hundred twenty five

1.25 : one point two five

525,913.75 : five hundred twenty five thousand nine hundred thirteen point seven five

percentage:
25% : twenty five percent

90% : ninety percent

Fraction:

read the first number and then the second number like a date

1/4 : one fourth
2/3 : two thirds
1/25: one twenty fifth

and is only used in British English

Pronunciation

flat : our sales were flat from Jan to Mar

flight (plane) -> I took a flight to Beijing

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