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Date: 2015-10-07; view: 613.

With regret

Voluntary redundancy

Stagnation

Run at a loss

Following

Early retirement

Consolidation

Exercise 4. Fill in the missing prepositions in the memo below. This memo is to inform of a takeover of a company.

Exercise 5. The Accountant in a department store wants to write a memo to staff about procedures for payments by cheque, and wants to remind them what steps they should take to prevent fraud. Read the following list of comments, and decide which points should be mentioned in the memo.

a. Staff should carefully match signatures on cheque cards with signatures on

cheques.

b. The value of bad cheques presented over the past year amounts to £30,000.

c. Salespeople should not make all the customers feel like criminals.

d. A number of customers pay for goods in cash.

e. Cheque cards have expiry dates and limits written on them which need to be

examined carefully.

f. Supervisors should be contacted if salespeople are unsure about a payment

g. Customers' reactions should be noted for nervousness.

h. Cheques should be examined to see that they have been completed properly.

i. The banks also lose a great deal of money through cheque fraud.

j. The problem of bad cheques cannot be eliminated, but it can be reduced.

Write the memo and cover the following points:

· Say what the problem is.

· Explain what procedures staff should follow.

· Explain what additional precautions can be taken.

· Say what staff should do if they are still in doubt about a cheque.

Exercise 6. Translate the memo below from Russian into English.

Exercise 7. Translate the memo below from Russian into English.