Message #34218

[gennysmom]

According to my boss, who has worked in finance for way too many years by his account, $25M would be $25,000 and $25MM would be $25,000,000 (either of which would make wonderful lottery winnings!)

He thinks it has something to do with the Roman numerals, as M would be 1000.  Therefore MM would be M times M, which would be 1,000 times 1,000, which equals a million.