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
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According to Greer, the university had a deficit of about £12.5m in the last financial year.
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026
Jio reported revenue from operations of 1.47 trillion rupees and net profit of 300.49 billion rupees for the financial year ended March 31.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Morgan Stanley’s earnings per share estimate for Apple was kept at about $10 in the financial year of 2027 and almost $11 in 2028.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
In July, she told employees there would be 3,200 job losses across Xbox-owned studios over the current financial year.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 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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