financial year
Britishnoun
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any annual period at the end of which a firm's accounts are made up
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the annual period ending April 5, over which Budget estimates are made by the British Government and which functions as the income-tax year
Example Sentences
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Beyond this, the force will receive up to £197.8m in funding in the 2026-2027 financial year - a 3.7% uplift in cash.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Beyond this, the force will receive up to £197.8m in funding in the 2026/2027 financial year - a 3.7% uplift in cash.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
The company said it had 2.5 million active creators, selling content to 132 million active so-called fan accounts or users in its latest financial year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
It marks the lowest growth since its fourth quarter of the financial year 2020 — which covered the three months ended January 31, 2020 — when sales increased by 1.9%.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
At the moment I realised what the news meant for me—my own personal loss and the needs of the Homes—for that was in September, and our financial year closed in October.
From In Answer to Prayer The Touch of the Unseen by W. Boyd Carpenter
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