TY - JOUR

T1 - Basic corporate finance terminology

T2 - An English-German dictionary

AU - Lueg, Rainer

AU - Wobst, Janice

PY - 2022/10/1

Y1 - 2022/10/1

N2 - Strong reliance on technical and figurative terminology in corporate finance allows effective communication between professionals while simultaneously impairing the accessibility and understandability of the domain by non-professionals or not-yet-professionals (e.g., students). To facilitate the understandability and learning process, we have compiled an English-German corporate finance dictionary. We translate relevant terms using conventional textbooks and the authors’ expertise. This dictionary contributes to the finance profession and provides a teaching resource for students in higher education programs. Such a dictionary is particularly helpful in these times of increasing financial market integrations. Our main finding is that the translation process is a challenging and time-consuming task. Moreover, such a dictionary will always be constrained by the meaning and interpretations the developers attach to the relevant concepts and will need to be updated as new concepts arise.

AB - Strong reliance on technical and figurative terminology in corporate finance allows effective communication between professionals while simultaneously impairing the accessibility and understandability of the domain by non-professionals or not-yet-professionals (e.g., students). To facilitate the understandability and learning process, we have compiled an English-German corporate finance dictionary. We translate relevant terms using conventional textbooks and the authors’ expertise. This dictionary contributes to the finance profession and provides a teaching resource for students in higher education programs. Such a dictionary is particularly helpful in these times of increasing financial market integrations. Our main finding is that the translation process is a challenging and time-consuming task. Moreover, such a dictionary will always be constrained by the meaning and interpretations the developers attach to the relevant concepts and will need to be updated as new concepts arise.

KW - Management studies

KW - dictionary

KW - Corporate finance

KW - higher education

KW - instrictor resource

U2 - 10.18374/IJBS-22-1.2

DO - 10.18374/IJBS-22-1.2

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 22

SP - 16

EP - 27

JO - International Journal of Business Research

JF - International Journal of Business Research

SN - 1555-1296

IS - 1

ER -