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 which was arranged by our company

last

week. As I had been asked by our senior manager to take part in a course which was related to the amendment of taxation law, I could not attend the meeting which was held by our firm.

Initially

, our manager planned to take

this

training by himself.

However

, he told me he was willing to show up at the conference 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 to catch up on due to being absent from the meeting. Currently, I am working on a report with regard to the content of the training 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