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The Office - Out Of Control Spending (C0013) A: OK, so now the last point on our agenda. Jill, let’s go over the profit and loss statement. B: Great. Well, the main issue here, as you can see, is that our expenses are through the roof. A: Let’s see... These numbers are off the charts! What’s going on here! B: Well, um, sir, the company expenditures on entertainment and travel are out of control. Look at these bills for example. Just this month we’ve paid over twenty thousand dollars for hotel charges! A: OK, thank you. I’ll look into it. B: The list goes on and on. Here, this is a bill for five thousand dollars for spa treatments! A: Thank you; that will be all. I’ll take care of it. B: Look at this one sir, eight thousand dollars were spent in one night at a place called ”Wild Things”?! A: OK, I get it!! Thank you for your very thorough analysis! Key Vocabulary go over phrase revise, check through the roof phrase suddenly very high off the charts phrase very high expenditures common noun, plural amount of money spent on something out of control phrase not in control look into principle verb, Will Future investigate, try to get information about something go on and on phrase continues take care of principle verb, Will Future do something about Supplementary Vocabulary revenue common noun, nonvariable amount of money paid to a business cash flow common noun, nonvariable the movement of money into and out of a business the bottom line phrase the net profit; the amount of money a business makes after expenses finances common noun, nonvariable the amount of money you have and how well it is organized income common noun, nonvariable the amount of money a person or a company makes assets common noun, plural things of value that are owned by a company