Key Points Rounding is conditional, depending on the need for significant figures. Different contexts might lead to different ...

It's Taxes From A to Z! R is for Rounding Off. That said, you can round numbers on a tax return, but round to the nearest dollar, not to the nearest hundred or thousand.

For most filers, rounding off usually makes little difference in their total tax. But the way the IRS sets up its tax tables, not keeping a close eye on the pennies can cost you a few dollars.

It’s so tempting to round off numbers and present your audience with clear, whole numbers rather than cluttering up the text with decimal points and a string of digits. Sometimes rounding a ...

But if you round a city budget of $1,264,312 to $1.3 million, you’ve just increased spending on by more than $35,000. For most of your audience, that’s serious money.

Rounding methods. The most basic function for rounding numbers in Calc is ROUND. This function will round off a number according to the usual rules of symmetric arithmetic rounding: a decimal place of ...