atw: Re: Writing numbers in text [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Been in a bank all year. Unless someone picks it up, it'll be paid as $200. If the payee adds another zero, no one's going to know. They don't check anything. 

Howard.Silcock@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Thanks to all for your responses. I might have known it was the *lawyers* behind this weird behaviour! As if it wasn't bad enough making us write 'BlackBerry devices', when no-one in their right mind would call them that in everyday speech.
Does anyone know what happens if you write a cheque and put 'two thousand dollars' in words and $200 in figures? Can the payee assume you meant $2000?
Howard 

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