Read the interview with Ivo Brunelli, an Italian executive. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense.

Using the given introduction, then write a similar interview about yourself.

“I (work) for a medium-sized company just outside Rome, selling and manufacturing electronic components for different applications. I (be) the finance manager which (mean) that I (have) complete responsibility for all aspects of our financial policy. I carefully (follow) the results of our six regional offices in Italy. This year the company (introduce) a new range of products that we (import) from France. Next week I (go) to Venice to meet the office manager and discuss developments in the north-east region. At the moment I (make) about €4000 a month with a bonus which, of course, (depend) on results. I (live) in a large flat in the centre of town and (drive) to work every day in the company car. I (get) five weeks paid holiday a year which I usually (spend) in the south of Italy with my wife and kids.

Complementary text.

By British Company Law (the Company Acts of 1948 and 1985) a limited company (public or private) must have a Company Secretary whose duties are plenty. First he is the clerk to the Directors: he is to keep Registers of Directors and Members, arrange for proceedings at directors’ and shareholders’ meetings, prepare notices for the calling of these meetings, attend them and advise the directors at board meetings on the legal, accounting and tax implications of any proposed business moves as well as write minutes and reports. (The minutes of a meeting are usually concise records of resolutions or decisions reached, and the reports are more extensive and give details of discussions, arguments for or against the resolutions, and so on.)

Second he represents his company and in this capacity he supervises the working of the staff and the maintenance of staff records (if there is no special staff manager), he is often finally responsible for the accounting and handling the contracts. Thus he is the link between the company and the members, between the company and the staff and between the company and the public.

The Company Secretary must be a properly qualified person, and to be able to fulfill his routine duties well he is supposed to have training in company law, accountancy and many other subjects. He is expected to be part-lawyer, part-economist, part-administrator and part-accountant.

But it takes a good deal more than professional qualifications to make a good Company Secretary: “he must be businessman and humanitarian, lawyer and visionary.” (as one of the English newspapers put it).

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