Money, finance and economy

What holds these lists together

These lists come at one question from several directions: what is there, how much of it belongs to the tax authorities, and in what legal form the whole thing exists at all. Their words either never occur in everyday speech or mean something else there. L’assiette is the tax base, not a plate; la franchise on an insurance policy is the excess, not a franchise; le point mort is the break-even point, and only in a car is it neutral. Read them in their everyday sense and you understand every sentence and none of the figures. What links them is not a subject but a demand for exactness.

For example: le bilan (the balance sheet), l’impôt sur le revenu (the income tax), la forme juridique (the legal form), l’étudiant en licence (the undergraduate student), environnemental (environmental), l’économie (the economy (of a country))

Spread across the levels

The category runs across the levels — it is an area, not a difficulty. If you practise it, you can also choose a level at the top of the practice page and then get only the part that sits there.