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Budget meeting

"Réunion de budget"
French C1 writing exercise

Thomas and Greg are meeting to review their company's quarterly performance and adjust their strategy.

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Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "to project [X money] in revenue", "a quarter (financial)", "to reach [something]", "so far", "worrying (something)", "a discrepancy", "[something] to raise concerns about [something]", "an annual target", "to manage to [do]", "to reduce [costs] by ...", "production costs", "to save [money]", "to invest [money] in [something]", "a marketing campaign", "to suggest that + [Subjonctif] ", "to decrease [something] by ..." , "administrative expenses", "to correspond to [something]", "to put [a strategy] in place", "to recoup [money]", "to focus on [doing]", "administrative expenditure", "even more [something]", "crucial", "the board (of a company)", "to approve [something]", "a budget plan".

Written by qualified French expert Céline Pickard PGCE, BA
Last updated: 2025-12-04

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You’ll practise: Le Présent (Indicatif), Le Subjonctif Présent, Mode subjonctif

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- For this quarter, we'd projected €3,500,000 in revenue but we've only reached €2,850,000 so far, a worrying discrepancy which raises serious concerns about our annual targets. - If we had managed to reduce our production costs by 15% as planned, we would have saved about €420,000. Plus, by the end of this year, we will have invested a total of 1,200,000 euros in our marketing campaigns. I suggest that we decrease the administrative expenses by 10%, which would correspond to 85,000 euros. - In that case, we must put a new pricing strategy in place. If we increase our product prices by 5%, we should recoup part of the money (that) we've already lost. - We must also focus on reducing administrative expenditure by at least 7%, otherwise we risk losing even more money. - That's why it is really crucial for the board to approve the new budget plan before the end of the next quarter.

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