19. Cost Control成本控制.doc

19. Cost Control 成本控制 　　1 Words and Phrases单词和词组 　　quantify量化 run above budget超出预算 　　allowance津贴 beside the point离题，不相关 　　creativity创造力 hard to quantify很难量化 　　tighten紧缩 tighten up on the spending紧缩开支 　　overrun超支 be based on基于，依据，根据 　　breakdown明细表 bring them into line使采取一致行动 　　requisition订购申请 a real pain真烦人 　　coordination协调 don’t have a clue一窍不通 　　bulk大宗 build up a standard stock建立标准库存 　　restrictive各自的 a fairly new company相对年轻的公司 　　2 Sentences重点句型 　　1. That’s beside the point. 这不相关。 　　2. Yeah，that’s what I reckon. 是的，这也是我所想的。 　　3. Some of the codes seem stupid to me. 对我来说有些代码看起来挺愚蠢。 　　4. Sometimes，it’s hard to judge these things. 有时很难评判这些事情。 　　5. That’s going to make a lot more work for me. 这将给我带来更大的工作量。 　　6. Accountants think differently to normal people. 会计人员和正常人的思维不同。 　　7. I hate the idea of taking the order books from us. 我讨厌从我们这儿撤走订货簿。 　　8. I know some of the costs are running over budget. 我知道有些成本已经超过预算了。 　　9. Now we’ve got to explain why we need everything. 现在我们需要任何东西都要解释来解释去的。 　　10. You mean，take all the order books away from the guys?你是说从他们这儿收回订货簿， 　　11. They should have spoken to us before they came up with these codes. 他们提出这些代码之前应该先和我们商量一下。 　　12. This is a real pain having to put a cost code on every dollar we spend. 每花一块钱都得加上成本代码真是烦人。 　　13. It slows everything down if we’ve got to go and beg for every little item. 为了每件琐碎的物品去求人实在拖了所有业务的后腿。 　　14. Whoever dreamt them up doesn’t have a clue about the advertising business. 空想出这些代码的人对广告业务根本就一窍不通。 　　15. We definitely need to improve our ability in controlling the costs of our advertising contracts. 我们确实需要提高控制广告合同成本的能力。 　　3 Dialogue 1 　　An Accountant and Manager discuss ways to improve the cost controls. A: We definitely need to improve our ability to control the costs of our advertising contracts. B: I know some of them are running above budget, but advertising is a creative game and it’s hard to quantify that. A: That’s bedside the point. We won the contracts on the basis of our quo