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1. Translate the text "Money and its functions."

Money is a commodity commonly accepted as a medium of economic exchange. The idea of money as a universal equivalent is familiar to us since our childhood. Money circulates from person to person and country to country, thus facilitating trade, and it is the principal measure of wealth. Money has four functions:

1) to serve as a medium of exchange, a commodity accepted in exchange for goods and services and for the discharge of debts or for the discharge of contracts;

2) to act as a unit of account, the unit that makes the operation of the price system possible and provides the basis for keeping accounts and calculating cost, profit, and loss;

3) to serve as a standard of deferred payments, the unit in which deferred payments

4) to provide a store of wealth, a convenient form in which to hold any income not immediately required for use.

Деньги – это товар, обычно воспринимаемый как средство экономического обмена. Идея относительно денег как универсального эквивалента знакома нам, начиная с нашего детства. Деньги циркулируют от человека к человеку и от страны к стране, таким образом, облегчая торговлю, и это - основная мера богатства. Деньги имеют четыре функции:

1) служат средством обмена; товаром, всеобще принятым для обмена на товары и услуги и для оплаты долгов или для оплаты контрактов;

2) действуют как единица счета, единица, которая делает ценовую систему возможной и обеспечивает основу для ведения счетов и расчета стоимости, прибыли, и убытков;

3) служат, стандартом отсроченных платежей; единицей, которая сделала займы и будущие сделки, состоявшимися;

4) обеспечивает запас материальных ценностей; удобная форма, для хранения любого дохода, в любое время необходимый для использования.

2. Ответить на вопросы.

1) What is meant by the term "money"?

2) How many functions does money have?

3) What does money serve as?

4) What does money act as?

5) What does money make?

6) What does money provide?

7) What does money calculate?

8) What is the third function of money?

9) What is the fourth function of money?

1) Money it is the goods serving as means of an economic exchange.

2) Money has four functions.

3) Money serves as a medium of exchange, a commodity accepted in exchange for goods and services and for the discharge of debts or for the discharge of contracts.

4) Money act as a unit of account, the unit that makes the operation of the price system possible and provides the basis for keeping accounts and calculating cost, profit, and loss.

5) Money make of the price system possible.

6) Money provides a basis for keeping accounts.

7) Money calculates cost, profit, and loss.

8) Money serves as the standard of the deferred payments.

9) Money provides a store of wealth, a convenient form in which to hold any income not immediately required for use.

3. Agree or disagree with the following statements.

1) Money is a medium of communication.

2) The idea of money as a universal equivalent is unfamiliar to us.

3) Money has five functions.

4) Money is used in exchange for goods and services.

5) Money is used for the discharge of defendant.

6) Money is used for the discharge of agreements.

7) Money acts as a trustee.

8) Money makes the operation of the price system impossible.

9) Money ensures the basis for keeping accounts.

10) Money counts cost, profit and loss.

11) Money is exercised as a standard of deferred payments.

12) Money serves as the unit in which borrowings are made.

13) Money serves as the unit in which futures are fixed.

14) Money provides a store of material values.

1) Yes, money is the environment of communication in an economic exchange.

2) No, the Idea concerning money as universal equivalent is familiar to us.

3) No, money has four functions.

4) Yes, money is used in exchange for goods and services.

5) Yes, money is used for the discharge duties of the defendant

6) Yes, money is used for the discharge of agreements and of contracts.

7) No, money does not operate as the trustee.

8) No, money makes action of price system possible.

9) Yes, money provides a basis for book keeping.

10) Yes, money a basis of calculation cost, profit and losses.

11) Yes, money serves as the standard of the deferred payments.

12) Yes, money serves as the unit in which borrowings are made.

13) Yes, money serves as the unit in which futures are fixed.

14) Yes, money provides a store of wealth.

4. Translate the following words, phrases and statements from Russian into English.

Обмен; удобный; держать; доход; немедленно; требовать; необходимый; возможный; хорошо знакомый; экономический; обыкновенно; эквивалент; товар; средство обмена; служить в качестве; общепринятый; товары; услуги; погашение долга; расчетная единица; ценовая система; обеспечивать; вести счет; подсчитывать; стоимость; прибыль; убыток; отсроченный платеж; cсуда; сделка на срок; хранение материальных ценностей; употребление; содействовать; исполнение договора. ............