1. Always lowercase the word “dollars.”
   
   
2. Use figures and the “$” in all except casual references or amounts without a
   figure.
    
   ie. The book cost $4.
   
   ie. The student used a dollar to buy candy at Southeast Bookstore.
   
   ie. Dollars are flowing in the local economy.
   
   
3. For specified amounts, the word takes a singular verb.
   
   ie. Southeast Missouri State University - Kennett's fund-raising goal is $400,000.
   
   
4. For amounts of more than $1 million, use the “$” and numerals up to two decimal
   places. Do not link the numerals and the word by a hyphen.
   
   ie. The River Campus is budgeted at $35.6 million.
   
   ie. It is worth exactly $35,605,432.
   
   ie. He proposed a $42 million budget.
   
   
5. The form for amounts less than $1 million: $4, $25, $500, $1,000, $650,000

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