Expressing calendar year in formal writing
I prepare and submit an annual report for a military institution each year. I referred to the calendar year as CY2018. One of the secretaries said that that is incorrect, and that it should be expressed as CY18. Can you please tell me which is correct? The cover page of the template that is provided by Headquarters contains the notation, "CY-2018". Thank you.
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Headquarters clearly wants you ti say CY-2018 on the cover page, so I'd also refer to it that way in the rest of the report. I wouldn't omit the hyphen, and I wouldn't shorten it to CY18 In my experience, businesses often refer to eg ' the 2018 calendar year' . Clive
- Headquarters clearly wants you ti say CY-2018 on the cover page, so I'd also refer to it that way in the rest of the report.
- I wouldn't omit the hyphen, and I wouldn't shorten it to CY18 In my experience, businesses often refer to eg ' the 2018 calendar year' .
- Clive
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Headquarters clearly wants you ti say CY-2018 on the cover page, so I'd also refer to it that way in the rest of the report. I wouldn't omit the hyphen, and I wouldn't shorten it to CY18
In my experience, businesses often refer to eg 'the 2018 calendar year'.
Clive
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