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Financial Year

Definition: Financial Year

Financial Year

Noun

1. Any accounting period of 12 months.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Specialty Definitions: Financial Year

DomainDefinitions

Business

The period usually covered by a company's accounts ; any yearly period at the end of which a firm, government, etc. , determines its financial conditions without regard to the calendar year. Source: European Union. (references)
 The twelve-month period for which a company produces accounts, not necessarily the same as a calendar year. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Financial Year

Synonym: fiscal year (n). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: y''s (finance).

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Crosswords: Financial Year

English words defined with "financial year": business indexcrunch. (references)
Specialty definitions using "financial year": annual audit, annual report, Award YearExpected Family ContributionFarm income and balance sheet, Fiscal Operations Report and Application to Participate, Forestry Incentive Programlast minute spendingmoving annual totalnational financial year, Net cash income, net earningsopen yearpro forma statement, profit balance, proposed national budgetyearly audit of financial statements. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Financial Year

DomainTitle

Books

  • Preliminary draft general budget of the European Communities for the financial year 1979 : general introduction (sent to the Council by the Commission on 13 June 1978, and subsequently amended by the Letter of amendment of 18 September 1978) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Financial Year

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

Overall public expenditure had increased with expenditure increasing from R34.1 billion during 1995/1996 financial year to R45.2 billion during the 1998/99 period. (references)

For the financial year ending June 2000, Singapore's veteran department store, Robinsons, reported a 72.3% increase in full-year net profit to US$23 million and a 19.2% increase in turnover to US$177 million. (references)

According to the most recent statistical report by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), the dental services industry generated a total income of A$1.685 billion in the financial year 1997/98. Purchases accounted for A$153 million of this expenditure. (references)

Economic History

Hong Kong

The department's budget for the financial year ended March 2002, totaled US$247.2 million. (references)

Trinidad

All companies are required to submit an annual return for each financial year to the Registrar of Companies. (references)

South Africa

The branch company, within six months after the end of its financial year, must file annual financial statements with the Registrar. (references)

Trade

India

Under the new definition, any person who has lived in the country for more than 182 days during the previous financial year is considered to be a resident, but persons who have traveled to and from India for the purpose of vacation, business or employment are excluded from this definition. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: Financial Year

Expression using "financial year": national financial year. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Financial Year

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  financial year

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Financial Year

Language Translations for "financial year"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

finansaar (accounting period, business year, fiscal year, operating year, period of account), finansår (accounting year, budget year, budgetary year, fiscal year, national financial year), regnskabsperiode (accounting period, business year, fiscal year, operating year, period of account), regnskabsaar (accounting period, business year, fiscal year, operating year, period of account), regnskabsår (accounting period, accounting year, budget year, budgetary year, business year, fiscal year, national financial year, operating year, period of account), driftsaar (accounting period, business year, fiscal year, operating year, period of account). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

boekjaar (accounting period, accounting year, budget year, budgetary year, business year, fiscal year, national financial year, operating year, period of account). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

administra jaro. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tilikausi (accounting period, business year, fiscal year, operating year, period of account). (various references)

   

French

  

année financière (fiscal year). (various references)

   

German

  

Wirtschaftsjahr (accounting period, business year, fiscal year, operating year, period of account), rechnungsjahr (accounting year, budget year, budgetary year, fiscal year, national financial year). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

χρήση (accounting period, application, business year, fiscal year, manipulation, operating year, period of account, practice, practise, usage, use), λογιστικό έτος (accounting year, budget year, budgetary year, fiscal year, national financial year), λογιστική χρήση (accounting period, business year, fiscal year, operating year, period of account), οικονομικό έτος (accounting period, business year, fiscal year, operating year, period of account), δημοσιονομικό έτος (accounting year, budget year, budgetary year, fiscal year, national financial year), δημοσιονομική χρήση (accounting year, budget year, budgetary year, fiscal year, national financial year). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

költségvetési év (budgetary year, fiscal year). (various references)

   

Italian

  

periodo contabile (accounting period, business year, fiscal year, operating year, period of account), esercizio (accounting period, accounting year, business year, exercise, exercise of an option, exertion, exploitation, fiscal year, operating year, Operation, period of account, practice, shop), anno finanziario (accounting year, budget year, budgetary year, fiscal year, national financial year), anno di attivit (accounting period, business year, fiscal year, operating year, period of account). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

過年度 (past financial year). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

かね"ど (past financial year). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

inancialfay yearay

   

Portuguese

  

exercício contabilístico (accounting period, business year, fiscal year, operating year, period of account), demonstrações financeiras (annual accounts, financial statements), ano orçamentario (accounting year, budget year, budgetary year, fiscal year, national financial year), ano de exploração (accounting period, business year, fiscal year, operating year, period of account), ano contabilístico (accounting period, business year, fiscal year, operating year, period of account). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

отчетный год (accounting year). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

año económico (accounting year, budget year, budgetary year, fiscal year, national financial year). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

räkenskapsår (accounting period, business year, fiscal year, operating year, period of account). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ปีงบประมา" (fiscal year). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

mali yıl (accounting year, fiscal year, tax year), hesap dönemi (accounting period). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Financial Year

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-e-f-i-i-l-n-n-r-y"

-4 letters: carnelian, financial, financier.

-5 letters: filariae, filarian, fireclay, incliner, infernal, irenical.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Financial Year


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 69 6E 61 6E 63 69 61 6C      59 65 61 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01101001 01101110 01100001 01101110 01100011 01101001 01100001 01101100 00100000 01011001 01100101 01100001 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#105 &#110 &#97 &#110 &#99 &#105 &#97 &#108 &#32 &#89 &#101 &#97 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0069 006E 0061 006E 0063 0069 0061 006C      0059 0065 0061 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

407580678069756778259716784

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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