Type business essays, sales forecasts, supplier contracts and statements, then read your WPM and accuracy.
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These business topics typing tests time you on original passages: short essays on margin, cash and break-even, sales forecasts, supplier contracts and financial statements written out in words. The page opens on one minute.
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Business essay typing test
Six short essays lead the set: gross and net margin, profit against cash, the balance sheet, accrual and cash accounting, the break-even point and the purchase order. Each explains its term in plain sentences with one worked example.
Why business text types slower
Figures. An amount such as $1,344,000, up 12%, takes Shift for the dollar sign and the percent sign and a comma between each group of three digits. The statements carry the most and the essays the fewest.
Say an amount as you type it: one million, three hundred forty-four thousand. The commas fall where you say million and thousand.
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What is a business typing test?
A typing test built from business text in place of everyday sentences, so currency amounts, percentages and terms such as accrual and net margin come up in running prose. It is scored in words per minute with accuracy.
Are the companies and figures real?
No. No company is named, and every amount, date and order number is invented; each sum and percentage was recomputed and works out. Only the meanings of the terms are real, checked against the IRS, the Small Business Administration, Investor.gov and Wikipedia.
Which passage is the hardest to type?
By figures, Budget report: actual against budget: 14 dollar amounts and a percentage in 57 words. Scoring goes character by character, so $9,400 typed as $9,500 costs one character here. In an office it is a wrong figure.
All 19 passages
Short essays on business topics 6
Essay: accrual and cash accountingCash method: recorded when the money moves. Accrual method: recorded when earned or incurred. The two dates, December 20 and January 15, decide where the $4,000 lands.
Essay: gross margin and net marginGross margin is revenue minus the cost of goods sold, divided by revenue; net margin is net income divided by revenue. Three dollar amounts and two percentages to type.
Essay: profit is not cashProfit is revenue minus cost, and the cash can arrive weeks later. The hyphen in 60-day is the key to the right of the zero.
Essay: the break-even pointBreak-even units are fixed costs divided by price minus variable cost: 6,000 divided by 12 is 500. Watch the hyphen in break-even.
Essay: what a balance sheet showsAssets equal liabilities plus equity: the passage works it through with $250,000, $160,000 and $90,000. A balance sheet is for one date; an income statement covers a period.
Essay: why a purchase order comes firstA purchase order goes from buyer to seller and states types, quantities and agreed prices. $3,400 and $3,485 differ by two characters: the slip a clerk is there to catch.
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Sales forecasts and pricing 4
Pricing note: a 5% price riseSix amounts, each with a point and two decimals; $240.00 to $252.00 is the 5% rise.
Sales forecast: the next quarterThree monthly unit figures that add to 40,000, then a price with a decimal: $18.50. The percent sign is Shift and 5.
Sales pipeline: the weekly updateCounts as words and as figures in one passage: forty-two, nine, six, three, four, two, then $1,260,000 with two commas.
Sales report: actual against forecastFour percentages and a shortfall: $210,000 less $197,400 is $12,600, which is 6% of the forecast.
Supplier contracts and purchase orders 4
Purchase order: office furnitureA purchase order line by line: quantity, item, unit price, line total. The three lines add to $8,020.00, and freight makes $8,200.00.
Supplier contract: delivery and qualityContract wording with few figures: within 10 working days, more than 2%, within 5 working days. Title and risk is a set phrase; type it as one.
Supplier contract: price and termCapitals on the defined terms: Buyer, Supplier, Agreement. The apostrophe in 60 days' comes after the s.
Supplier review: three quotes comparedThree quotes in one shape, so the rhythm repeats: price per carton, price a year, delivery. $0.45, $0.42 and $0.40 each start with a zero before the point.
Statements and quarterly summaries 5
Balance sheet in wordsAssets of $350,000 on one side; liabilities of $170,000 plus equity of $180,000 on the other. Eleven dollar amounts, each with a comma.
Budget report: actual against budgetActual against budget, pair after pair: two amounts and the gap between them, as in $231,000 against $225,000, over by $6,000.
Cash flow statement in wordsThe three parts of a cash flow statement in order: operating, investing, financing. $96,000 less $54,000 less $22,000 is the $20,000 rise in cash.
Income statement in wordsGross profit, operating income and net income in order, the way an income statement runs downward. Net income of $57,400 on revenue of $820,000 is a net margin of 7%.
Quarterly summary: the second quarterGrowth in percentages: 12%, 38%, 9%, 12%. Each of the four largest revenue figures has two commas.
How this list was compiled: Nineteen passages made for this page: six short essays on business topics, four on sales forecasts and pricing, four on supplier contracts and purchase orders, and five statements and summaries written out in words. No passage was copied from a hiring test, a textbook or another page of this site. No company or person is named, and every amount, date, quantity and order number is invented; every sum, product and percentage in the passages was checked, and so were the word and character counts (a character is one keystroke, spaces included). The meanings of the terms were checked on 2026-10-07. Accrual and cash methods (income reported when earned or when received, expenses when incurred or when paid): US Internal Revenue Service, Publication 538, Accounting Periods and Methods, https://www.irs.gov/publications/p538. Break-even point (the point at which total cost and total revenue are equal; fixed costs divided by price minus variable cost): US Small Business Administration, https://www.sba.gov/breakevenpointcalculator. Revenue, profit (revenue minus cost) and net income (profit after all expenses and taxes have been deducted from revenue): the glossary of Investor.gov, US Securities and Exchange Commission, https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/investing-basics/glossary. Balance sheet (assets, liabilities and equity as of one date; equity is assets minus liabilities), income statement (revenues and expenses during a period), cash flow statement (operating, investing and financing activities), gross margin (revenue minus cost of goods sold, divided by revenue), net margin as a profit margin (profit as a percentage of revenue) and purchase order (sent from buyer to seller, listing types, quantities and agreed prices): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_sheet, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_statement, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_flow_statement, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_margin, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profit_margin and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchase_order. The passages are typing practice, not accounting, tax or investment advice. Licence: own work