A Practice Report On The Translation Of Accounting And Finance:an Introduction (Chapter 4)

The practice report is based on the translation of Chapter 4 of Accounting and Finance:An Introduction(Eighth edition)written by the American scholar Eddie Mclaney and the freelance writer Peter Atrill.The text for translation is mainly about the accounting for limited companies,including the characteristics and financing of limited companies and the reserves.The text is written in an ‘open-learning' style,which provides a lot of exercises and classic cases and inserts charts and reports to support the authors' opinions.The translation practice report consists of five parts: task description,process description,preparations for translation,case analysis and summary.Chapter 1 gives a brief introduction to the task's source,contents and requirements.Chapter 2 presents three phrases of translation process,including preliminary work,translation and proofreading.Chapter 3 describes the preparations for source text analysis,translation tools and terminologies in detail.Chapter 4 is the essence part,which mainly analyzes the emphasis and the difficulties of the translation from the lexical level and the sentence level by combining specific cases and using the translation techniques.The last chapter summarizes the experience and concludes the lessons of this translation practice.