Using the (decimal) results of a number formatter

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I’ve got an AS application that I’m working on that deals with money. I have number formatters set up for the relevant fields. Some of the amounts are calculated and they look fine while in the number formatter, but when I get the contents of the formatter, they sometimes have a bunch of trailing decimals. What looks like “24.95” in the formatter comes out “24.9494” when I want to work with the data.

I’ve tried using the “string value of” modifier when getting contents, that doesn’t seem to work. I’ve also tried this:

on getFormattedText(theObject)
	set theValue to the content of theObject
	set theFormatter to call method "formatter" of object theObject
	set theString to call method "stringForObjectValue:" of object theFormatter with parameter theValue
	return theString
end getFormattedText

…which probably does the same thing in Cocoa.

Can’t I get the same rounded number that the formatter shows? Or do I have to do the rounding myself?