Budgeting and Getting Finance

1. Have you ever drawn up a personal budget? If so, was it a yearly, monthly or weekly budget?2. Do you set a budget for holidays?3. If you were to present a budget, how would you answer a question such as ''What could you do

with half of that?''4. What parties agreed on Italy's latest budget?5. What bodies are involved in the approval of the EU's yearly budget? - PSoI6. List 5 good practices that can help you keep to your personal budget:7. What is a balanced budget?8. If you were to cut your budget, which entries would you consider?9. What sectors have been more heavily affected by budget reduction in your country over the last

year?10. What could you do in order to slash your food budget?11. Are you on budget at present?12. Have you ever come in below budget?13. List 3 factors that can lead to coming under budget?14. Do you happen to come over budget or do you rather decide it?15. What considerations make you decide to come over budget instead of coming within budget?16. List 5 hobbies that can generate income:17. What is the most common way to generate revenue for Websites?18. Do the Olympic Games generate profit for the city hosting them? Support your answer with

relevant data19. How can Nonprofit organizations generate funds?20. How can business be generated on Facebook?21. How can people fund a campaign?22. What are venture funds?23. What is another expression for expansion funding?24. How is your country's spending financed?25. What can a company do in order to finance deficit? 26. Choose a company and write who provided capital for it:27. Crowdfunding is a recently developed method of fund raising, what does it consist of?28. What is capital allocation?29. Does Italy attract more or less investments compared with the past?30. Choose a company and describe the steps it has taken to encourage investors:31. Provide an example of cost recovery by a company:32. How many synonyms of recoup (losses) do you know?33. How can you say "The length of time required to recover the cost of an investment" using two

words only?34. Where can people get credit?35. What do people have to do in order to obtain a loan?36. Have you ever been offered credit?37. Why do people resort to organisms granting loans?38. Would you apply for car finance? Why?39. Companies often raise finance from external sources. Why?40. When applying for a loan, what security could you provide?

41. What is a scheme of arrangement?42. Is finance easily provided in your country?