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Belastung (Belastungsfaktor/Ergebnisbelastung)

English translation: financial pressures / reduced earnings

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German term or phrase:Belastung (Belastungsfaktor/Ergebnisbelastung)
English translation:financial pressures / reduced earnings

03:21 Mar 30, 2005
German to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Management / speech on annual accounts
German term or phrase: Belastung (Belastungsfaktor/Ergebnisbelastung)
I'm looking for the right sense of "Belastung" in the two places it comes up in this sentence--is he talking sooner about pressures do you think or actual financial burdens/encumbrances (reductions in income)?

Unter dem Strich führten die externen und internen **Belastungsfaktoren** dazu, dass das Unternehmen in diesem Jahr eine **Ergebnisbelastung** im hohen dreistelligen Millionen Euro-Bereich trage.

Here is the next section, for a bit more context:

Der Vorstandschef betonte dazu: „Ergebnisbelastungen können und wollen wir uns aus verschiedenen Gründen nicht leisten.
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Erik Macki
Local time: 18:53
financial pressures / reduced earnings
Explanation:
Hi Erik,
I'm not an expert for financial translations, but this is how I would translate the sentence:

"In the end, the internal and external financial pressures resulted in reduced earnings for the company of several hundred million euros this year."

I think "Belastungsfaktor" is meant to refer to actual financial burdens borne by the company (i.e. as opposed to the overall economic climate), but is still used in a general sense that is conveyed by "financial burdens."

(Lots of options for "im hohen dreistelligen Millionen Euro-Bereich," but that's a different question...)
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Michael Schubert
United States
Local time: 18:53
Grading comment
Thanks for the help--I appreciate it. I went with exactly what you suggested, deciding that "financial pressures" and "reduced earnings" were the senses that the author intended here. Thanks!
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3financial pressures / reduced earnings
Michael Schubert


  

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Belastungsfaktoren / Ergebnisbelastung
financial pressures / reduced earnings


Explanation:
Hi Erik,
I'm not an expert for financial translations, but this is how I would translate the sentence:

"In the end, the internal and external financial pressures resulted in reduced earnings for the company of several hundred million euros this year."

I think "Belastungsfaktor" is meant to refer to actual financial burdens borne by the company (i.e. as opposed to the overall economic climate), but is still used in a general sense that is conveyed by "financial burdens."

(Lots of options for "im hohen dreistelligen Millionen Euro-Bereich," but that's a different question...)

Michael Schubert
United States
Local time: 18:53
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
Thanks for the help--I appreciate it. I went with exactly what you suggested, deciding that "financial pressures" and "reduced earnings" were the senses that the author intended here. Thanks!

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neutral  Karen Herzog: I agree with the "reduced earnings" but I'm not sure if the pressures described are necessarily financial, could be other
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