Amazon.com description: Product Description: As a key component of The Basic Spanish Series, BASIC SPANISH FOR BUSINESS AND FINANCE, 2E is a communication manual designed to serve those in the world of business who seek basic conversational skills in Spanish. Written for use in two-semester or three-quarter courses, it presents typical everyday situations that business and accounting students, pre-professionals, and professionals may encounter at their workplace, on business travel, or while communicating with business partners abroad. BASIC SPANISH FOR BUSINESS AND FINANCE, 2E introduces essential business vocabulary and notas culturales written from a cross-cultural perspective. It provides students with opportunities to apply, in a wide variety of practical contexts, the grammatical structures presented in the corresponding lessons of the Basic Spanish core text. The second edition of BASIC SPANISH FOR BUSINESS AND FINANCE has several new features: a new trivia feature that gives students interesting facts related to the chapter theme; a new advanced translation section in the Repaso selftest sections and a brand new chapter 20.