The Missing Fifty Thousand

Sean and Allison are looking at financial records in their office in Chicago, trying to figure out where a large client payment has gone.

The Missing Fifty Thousand

Listen and choose the right answer

What is the main problem at the beginning of the conversation?

• A payment of fifty thousand dollars is missing
• The bank account has been frozen
• A client refused to pay their invoice

Why do they rule out the client, Apex Logistics?

• Because they went bankrupt last week
• Because they always pay on time
• Because they sent an email explaining a delay

What was the actual cause of the financial discrepancy?

• The bank lost the transaction completely
• The money was sent to a completely different company
• A decimal point was moved, making the amount 500 dollars instead of 50,000

What does Sean decide to do at the end of the call?

• Call the client's finance manager to fix the mistake
• Write off the missing money as bad debt
• Close the company's bank account

Listen again and complete the sentences

• Sean: Allison, come look at this bank statement right now because our ____ is looking terrible.
• Allison: What's wrong, Sean? Is another large payment ____ ?
• Sean: Worse than that, because the fifty thousand dollars from Apex Logistics still hasn't arrived in our ____ .
• Allison: That's impossible because they always pay their ____ on the very first day of the month.
• Allison: Then it might be a bank delay, or it could be a problem with the latest online ____ system.

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