Cheque amount in numbers

reclusive46

Can I put a dash instead of decimal when writing cheque?


IE. 12-01 12 pounds and 1 pence

instead of 12.01 12 pounds and 1 pence

jen245

Yes, that's how I write my cheques

Biggles

That's generally recommended, as if you just put a dot, esp when using a ballpoint pen, it can be almost invisible. A dash is clearer.

dibuzz

I always do that

Gromitt

I've always used a dash, its clearer and easier than a decimal point.

pmduk

Most cheques books I've ever had recommend a dash over a decimal point, more difficult to alter. It's years since I've written a cheque though.

Lansdowne

A dash is preferred rather than a dot. But so is correct English on cheques.
so Twelve pounds and 1 penny not pence which is the plural.

Biggles

Lansdowne wrote: »

A dash is preferred rather than a dot. But so is correct English on cheques.
so Twelve pounds and 1 penny not pence which is the plural.

I think the OP was just clarifying the amounts.

The correct way of writing the words part of the cheque would be 'twelve pounds 01', or 'twelve pounds 1p', the pence are usually left as figures.

InsideInsurance

The idea of writing it in words on the cheque as well as digits is to prevent someone being able to alter the amount. Pence figure is often written as numbers instead as words because its quicker and worst case senario is that if it is "1p" is that someone puts a 9 in front of it and you lose 90p.

It wouldn't be sensible to write the pounds in numericals rather than words as they could potentally add thousands to the cheque easily.

As to a dot v a dash, one is as valid as the other, in fact it is arguable at what point one becomes the other

Gromitt

When writing the pence value in the description I write it the same the figures, eg: "Twelve pounds and 01p", but if its zero pence I either write: "Twelve pounds and zero pence" or "Twelve pounds only" depending on how much of a rush I'm in.