📖LearnModule 14 · Lesson 18 of 30Proficient User · CEFR C2, continuedUnit 4 · Los lenguajes profesionales
Las finanzas
Module 14 of the free Spanish course (CEFR C2, continued), lesson 18 of 30: Financial Spanish borrows less from English than you expect. On this page: 9 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line, the conjugation table and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
la facturación
the revenue (sales)
lah fahk-too-rah-SYOHN
la tesorería
the cash (position)
lah teh-soh-reh-REE-ah
el gasto
the expense
ehl GAHS-toh
el beneficio
the profit
ehl beh-neh-FEE-syoh
la pérdida
the loss
lah PEHR-dee-dah
el ejercicio
the financial year
ehl eh-hehr-SEE-syoh
invertir
to invest
een-behr-TEER
anual
annual
ah-NWAHL
ellos invierten en la empresa
they invest in the company
EH-yohs een-BYEHR-tehn ehn lah ehm-PREH-sah
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
La regla · The rule
Financial Spanish borrows less from English than you expect. La facturación is turnover; la tesorería is cash flow; los gastos are costs; el beneficio is profit and la pérdida is loss.
Y también · And also
Un ejercicio is a financial year, not an exercise. A report that says en el ejercicio 2026 is telling you which year, and the phrase is unavoidable in any annual report in Spanish.
Ojo · Watch out
el ejercicio in a company report is the financial year, not an exercise; el beneficio is profit, not benefit; los gastos are costs. invertir changes e to ie: invierto, invierten.
invertir, presente — the table
yo invierto · tú inviertes · él/ella/usted invierte · nosotros invertimos · ustedes invierten · ellos/ellas invierten
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with la facturación.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out invertir, presente in full from memory, every person, and check each form against the table above.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The Spanish Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.