Money
Cash Flow Management
Payment
Financial Expert Talk
Financial Idioms
100

This is a certificate or token that can be exchanged for goods or services.

What is a voucher?

100

The management of this is vital for a business' survival. 

What is cash flow?

100

This is a system of exchange where goods or services are traded directly without the use of money

What is bartering/to barter?

100

According to the financial expert in our book, businesses can minimize their expenses using this method to protect themselves if they don't have enough money in their bank account

What is ask the bank for a bigger overdraft?

100

This is the German equivalent of "Money’s tight at the moment."

What is knapp?

200

This is physical currency or coins used to make purchases

What is cash?

200

For big contracts, payments in this can be offered to customers

What are installments/instalments?

200

This type of payment is an instruction given by a customer to their bank to make regular payments of a fixed amount to a specified account

What is a standing order?
200

According to the financial expert in our book, this is the first level of escalation businesses can do to ensure customers pay their invoices

What is send payment reminder letters?

200

This is the German equivalent of "She made a small fortune."

What is ein kleines Vermögen?

300

This is a payment card that allows the holder to access funds from their bank account to pay for goods and services

What is a debit card?

300

Problems occur if income lags behind this

What are expenses?

300

This is a type of payment made through a mobile device, such as a smartphone or tablet, using a payment app or mobile wallet

What is a mobile payment?

300

According to the financial expert in our book, businesses can minimize their expenses using this method to allow individuals or businesses the opportunity to purchase their items they no longer need

What is sell unnecessary assets to raise cash?

300

This is the German equivalent of "You need to tighten your belts."

What is den Gürtel enger schnallen?

400

This type of money is a written order (in paper) from an account holder instructing a bank to pay a specified amount of money to a person or organization

What is a cheque/check?

400

Successful businesses use customer management to ensure these are paid on time and issued quickly 

What are invoices?


400

This is a transaction in which a one-time payment is issued electronically by the account holder, e.g. to pay bills

What is a bank/credit transfer?

400

According to the financial expert in our book, this is the second level of escalation businesses can do to ensure customers pay their invoices

What is charge interest for late payments?

400

This is the German equivalent of "We’re in the black at last."

What is schwarze Zahlen schreiben?

500

This is a type of digital currency that can be used to make purchases online or in person

What is bitcoin?

500

Businesses should have this checked with a new customer's bank or credit agency

What is creditworthiness?

500

This type of payment is an instruction given by a customer to their bank authorizing a third party to collect payments from their account on a regular basis

What is a direct debit?

500

According to the financial expert in our book, this is the third level of escalation businesses can do to ensure customers pay their invoices

What is threaten with legal action?

500

This is the German equivalent of "I have to cough up again."

What is das Geld locker machen?

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