Well... Since we're talking about the above subject I thought I might as well jump into this opportunity and kickstart a discussion.
I've been working on getting an accounting designation to add it to my portfolio and I ran across this puzzling, and yet unsettling subject: where to place the '$' sign in money figures. That's when it dawned on me that (again) the "convension" we use in North America is awkward and flawed. I'm working on a document to submit to the accounting authorities to request that they review this policy. IMHO one should write money values as: 8.00 $ and NOT: $8.00 There are several reasons why I believe the former to be more appropriate, but I'll leave that up to folks here to share some views before I share mine... ;-) Marcus On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 12:50:58 John David Galt wrote: >"Bill Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I notice he uses B$ (byte dollar?), rather than G$. (Currency isn't and >> never will be SI [because it doesn't measure things; it counts them], but if >> he's going to prefix the dollar sign as though it were SI, he should at >> least use the correct prefix.) > >I agree, though when writing an actual amount I tend to use the SI modifier >as a suffix, as in $35k. > > ____________________________________________________________ Get 25MB of email storage with Lycos Mail Plus! Sign up today -- http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus
