First English-Danish dictionary for accounting
Researcher from CBS is the co-author of the first English-Danish dictionary for accounting, financial management, and auditing
What is ‘EPS diluted’? What is ‘cost-volume-profit analysis’? And what are these concepts called in Danish? These are just some of the questions the new ‘English-Danish Accounting Dictionary’ can answer. The dictionary, which has been developed by researchers at the Aarhus School of Business (ASB) in collaboration with the Department of International Language Studies and Computational Linguistics at Copenhagen Business School, is the first new dictionary of its kind.
Relevant when courses start
The book is applicable to, among others, accountants, employees within economics, translators, and economics and language students, as well as their teachers.
-The dictionary is particularly useful for the many students of both economics and language courses starting right now who are using English-language text books, says Lise Mourier from CBS, one of the three authors of the book.
According to the authors, those working within communication, journalists, and others—for example, private investors, and people who want to know more about international conditions within accounting, financial management, and auditing—will also find the book useful.
Help for translation and understanding
Other than the individual look-up words with their equivalents, the book also contains a large number of definitions and translations of specific accounting terms from English to Danish. The dictionary is therefore a tool to help prepare, translate, and understand texts to do with accounting and economics in English and Danish, and it can also be used to acquire knowledge about these areas.
The book is built on the national accounting guidelines from the USA and Great Britain, as well as the relevant international accounting standards recognized by the EU—the so-called International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), which all listed companies must follow when they prepare their accounts.
The dictionary is accessible at www.regnskabsordbogen.dk by clicking “Engelsk-Dansk” on the left-hand side.
The authors:
Lise Mourier is a lecturer, MA in Translation and Interpretation, Department of International Language Studies and Computational Linguistics, Copenhagen Business School. She has written the book together with lecturer, Sandro Nielsen, PhD, and professor Henning Bergenholtz, Aarhus School of Business.
Publisher:
The English-Danish Accounting Dictionary is published by Thomsen 2007, where it can also be purchased. To read more, click here.