financial year

noun

any annual period at the end of which a firm's accounts are made up
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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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.

By the advent of the financial year 1888-9, most intelligent public men felt gravely disturbed.

A sharp increase is bound to come, however, in the course of the financial year.

The Budget for the next financial year was introduced in due course.

It was a night which marked the close of the financial year of the firm.

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