You were absent from an important event held by the company you work for. Write a letter to your manager. In your letter: • Apologize for your absence • Explain why you had to be at the other event • Explain what you will do to catch up

Dear Mr Bank, I am writing

this

letter to express my apology regarding the absence of the crucial conference

last

week. I am incredibly sorry not to take part in the meeting which was arranged by our firm. The reason why I was unable to attend

this

event

is that I had been asked by our senior executive to participate in a training

course

in terms of the amendment of taxation law.

Initially

, our manager planned to take

this

training section by himself.

However

, he told me he was willing to show up in the

event

that our firm organized and asked me to take the training

course

instead

of him.

Furthermore

, as you will know, those changes in the taxation law are connected to our work extremely, so I had to give up attending the

last

Friday

event

to take part in the

course

. I envisage that there are several tasks that I need to do to catch up on due to being absent from the meeting. Currently, I am writing a report with regard to the content of the

course

that I attended, and I reckon I will be able to complete it at the end of

this

week.

As a result

, I plan to learn the information which was presented at the

event

from

next

week. If you would like to discuss my absence and the content of our

event

with me

further

, please contact me without hesitation. I am looking forward to your reply. Yours sincerely, Nina Guan