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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OnlyFans had 47 employees, 2.5 million active creators and 132 million active user accounts, 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
Net profit climbed 9 percent from a year earlier to US$9.8 billion in the financial year to June 30, said the resources group, the world's biggest miner by market value.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
In the financial year just ended, the figure was about 241.6 billion transactions - almost 12,000 times the volume in UPI's first full year.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
As the financial year had closed in May, it would be more than two years since the previous report had been made to the public.
From George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God by Arthur T. (Arthur Tappan) Pierson
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