INVITING COLLEAGUES
English for Accounting (page 29-38)
Farida Indri Wijayanti, M.Pd
An invitation
Is a request, a solicitation, or an attempt to get another person to join you a at specific
event.
An invitation is either accepted or refused
In a business environment, employees often encounter a situation where they are required
to make an invitation for their business colleagues
It can be to attend a meeting, do a special job, and even go for lunch
Therefor, making an invitation is a particular skill that en employee must be acquired
Giving invitation
Do you want to go to the city library to find a book about how to write a financial report?
Would you like to go with me fur lunch?
Would you be interested in going to an international conference on sharia finance?
How do you fancy visiting our new office?
Care to come over for a weekly meeting?
I was just wondering if you would like to go with me at the book fair?
We’d be delighted to have you over the opening of Indonesian accountant exchange
program
Accepting invitation
Sure. What time
I’d love to, thanks
That’s very kind of you, thanks
What a great idea, thank you
Sure, when should I be there?
Refusing invitation
I can’t. I have to work. Sorry
I am sorry. I have another appointment
That’s very kind of you but actually i am doing something else this afternoon
Well. I’d love to, but I am already going out to my office
I’m really sorry, but I have got something else
Examples
(Accepting invitation)
1. A: Would you join me to the book fair?There are a lot of a new release books about
accounting
B: Sure, There must be a finance book I want to buy. How about you?
C: I thin that is interesting. Let’s go then
2. A: Would you come with me to the accounting seminar?
B: Sure, I would
3. A: Would you like to go with me to the IAI conference at Jakarta?
B: Sure, when should we go?
Examples
(Refusing invitation)
1. A: Would you be interested in joining a gold investment with me?
B : I’m really sorry but I can not afford it
2. A : Would you come with me to the accounting meeting?
B: I am sorry. I have another appointment
3. A: Would you like to go with me to the accounting conference at Solo?
B: I can’t. I have to work
Practice 1:
Make a dialogue based on the situations:
A: You are assigned by your boss to make a financial report of this month. However, since
you are a new employee in your office, you have not understood yet how to make the
report. You notice that one of your colleague is good at it. Therefore, you are going to
invite him to your room to teach you how to make a financial report
B: You need to accept your colleague’s invitation, but you have to discuss the time. You are
free on Sunday morning only
Practice 2
A: You want to invite your colleague from an overseas company to be an auditor of your
company. You are going to call him to come to your office
B: You are not available to be an auditor in your colleague’s company because you have a
lot of works to do. You need to reject this invitation.
Writing an invitation letter
An invitation letter contains a request for a person or a party to come and participate in a
particular event.
It uses expressions to ensure the recipients participation.
In the context of business environemnt, you are often to write a letter inviting your
colleague
Some parts or elements e.g head of the letter, recipient, greeting, purpose of the letter,
detail of the event and additional information, closing, sender
Examples
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Examples
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WRITING A BUSINESS E-MAIL
(page 20-25)
E-mail is an electronic letter or message which can only be accessed from computers or
electronic devices
There are several features in an email
Feature Explanation Example
1. To whom your email is [email protected]
Destination/address/rec addressed
eiver
2. Carbon copy (cc): Another receiver [email protected]
3. Blind carboncopy The same as Cc, but no one [email protected]
(Bcc) can see the address
4. Subject What the email is about Welcoming a new
employee, invitation
WRITING A BUSINESS E-MAIL
(page 20-25)
Feature Explanation Example
5. Attachement File you send along with the Documents (doc, pdf,
email excel, picture, music,
video, etc
6. Greeting Salutation Dear sir/madam, Dear
(Name), Hi or Hi (name),
Hello
7. Opening sentence Reasons of writing I am writing to you in
order to...
I am interested in...
Through this email, I invite
you to attend...
I write to complain about...
After having seen your
advertisement in...I would
like to....
WRITING A BUSINESS E-MAIL
(page 20-25)
Feature Explanation Example
8. Main point Email information detail Your main purpose writing
the email
9. Closing sentence Used to close the writing and I look forward to your
to ask any response from reply
receiver Please don’t be hesitate to
contact me with any
questions or concerns you
may have
I wait for a response at
your earlier
convenience.thank you
10. Sign off Signature Sincerely yours
Yours faithfully
Best regards
Note:
When the recipient’s name is unknown to you:
Greeting : Dear sir/ Dear madam/Dear sir or Madam
Sign off : Yours faithfully
When addressing a close friend or colleagues
Greeting : Dear (recipient’s name) e.G Dear Steve
Sign off : Best wishes/ Best regards
Practice
(Page 38)
Write an invitation email for the following situation. You may provide necessary details
such as contact, place etc
You are a secretary of an international accounting company in Jakarta, Indonesia. Your
director asks you to write a formal invitation for his collegues in Saudi Arabia to come to
your office. The purpose of the meeting is to build a mutual relationship in the field of
sharia investment
Send it to
[email protected], in the 11th meeting
