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Lime car 389 Posted 8 years ago
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Which is clearer:

In response to your request for an itemized receipt for the work completed, I've attached an itemized final estimate.

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I've attached an itemized final estimate in response to your request for an itemized receipt for the work completed.

  

Top answer

Let's review some vocabulary. Broadly speaking, an estimate is an attempt to calculate actual future costs It may be lower or higher. An invoice is a bill for actual costs.

  • Let's review some vocabulary.
  • Broadly speaking, an estimate is an attempt to calculate actual future costs It may be lower or higher.
  • An invoice is a bill for actual costs.
  • A receipt is an acknowledgement that a payment has been received.
  • In your sentence, it's not clear to me what the customer has requested or what the writer has attached.
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Let's review some vocabulary.

Broadly speaking, an estimate is an attempt to calculate actual future costs It may be lower or higher.

An invoice is a bill for actual costs.

A receipt is an acknowledgement that a payment has been received.


In your sentence, it's not clear to me what the customer has requested or what the writer has atta

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