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    Fiscal Year

    Does anyone have an idea on how to determine the fiscal year a given date? (The FY runs from Sep 1 thru Aug 31)

    Dave
    Dave Jampole
    www.customalpha.com

    Women and cats will do whatever they want. The sooner men and dogs realize that, the happier they will be.


    #2
    RE: Fiscal Year

    If you want Sept through Dec of 2002 and January through August of 2003 to be in FY 2002, etc., I think this works

    FUNCTION fiscal AS N (curdate AS D )
    if alltrim(cdate(curdate))=""
    end
    end if
    select
    case between(month(curdate),9,12)
    fiscal = year(curdate)

    case between(month(curdate),1,8)
    fiscal = year(curdate) - 1

    end select

    END FUNCTION
    There can be only one.

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      #3
      RE: Fiscal Year

      Stan,

      Thanks, I'll give it a try.

      Dave
      Dave Jampole
      www.customalpha.com

      Women and cats will do whatever they want. The sooner men and dogs realize that, the happier they will be.

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        #4
        RE: Fiscal Year

        A more complete function. Requires two parameters, "as of" date and "begin" date of a fiscal year. Return is numeric fiscal year of the "as of" date, negative 1 is returned if either parameter is missing or if the begin date is not in the form of {xx/01/xxxx}.

        FUNCTION fiscalpr AS N (curdate AS D,begin AS D )
        fiscalpr = -1
        if alltrim(cdate(curdate))="" .or. alltrim(cdate(begin))= "" .or. day(begin)>1
        end
        end if
        select
        case month(begin) = 1
        fiscalpr = year(curdate)

        case between(month(curdate),month(begin),12)
        fiscalpr = year(curdate)

        case between(month(curdate),1,month(begin))
        fiscalpr = year(curdate) - 1

        end select

        END FUNCTION
        There can be only one.

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          #5
          RE: Fiscal Year

          Slight correction, pasted an early attempt.

          FUNCTION fiscalpr AS N (curdate AS D,begin AS D )
          fiscalpr = -1
          if alltrim(cdate(curdate))="" .or. alltrim(cdate(begin))= "" .or. day(begin)>1
          end
          end if
          select
          case month(begin) = 1
          fiscalpr = year(curdate)

          case between(month(curdate),month(begin),12)
          fiscalpr = year(curdate)

          case between(month(curdate),1,month(begin)-1)
          fiscalpr = year(curdate) - 1

          end select
          END FUNCTION
          There can be only one.

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            #6
            RE: Fiscal Year

            Stan,

            I apologize for not stating my situation clearly enough.

            I have an application date on a form. I want to compute the fiscal year based on the application date, with the FY defined as 09/01/year thru 08/31/year+1. I hope this is clearer.

            Dave
            Dave Jampole
            www.customalpha.com

            Women and cats will do whatever they want. The sooner men and dogs realize that, the happier they will be.

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              #7
              RE: Fiscal Year

              Dave:

              Add a year and subtract a day.

              new date = addyears(date+1)
              new date = add_bus_days(new dat},-1)

              I hope this helps

              bob adler

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                #8
                RE: Fiscal Year

                I can think of several ways to interpret your statement. The first way is that you want to know what fiscal year your application date "falls in".

                Given that, do you want Sept-Dec of one calendar year to "pull" January-Aug of the next calendar year back into the previous numbered year? Say Sept 2002 to Aug 2003 is FY 2002 - this is the function I posted.

                Or do you want Jan-Aug of one calendar year to "pull" Sep-Dec forward? Say Sept 2002-Aug 2003 is FY 2003. - easily derived from the same function, moving the -1 up one case statement and making it +1

                Another interpretation is you want the entrie fiscal year period to be returned, given an application date

                This function

                FUNCTION fiscst AS C (curdate AS D)
                fiscst = dtoc({01/01/1900}) + " to " + dtoc({01/01/1900})
                if alltrim(cdate(curdate))=""
                end
                end if
                select

                case between(month(curdate),9,12)
                fiscst = "09/01/"+ltrim(str(year(curdate))) + " to "+"08/31/"+ltrim(str(year(curdate)+1))

                case between(month(curdate),1,8)
                fiscst = "09/01/"+ltrim(str(year(curdate)-1)) + " to "+"08/31/"+ltrim(str(year(curdate)))

                end select
                END FUNCTION

                does that, in character form.

                ? fiscst({09/01/2002})
                = "09/01/2002 to 08/31/2003"

                ? fiscst({12/01/2002})
                = "09/01/2002 to 08/31/2003"

                ? fiscst({01/01/2003})
                = "09/01/2002 to 08/31/2003"

                ? fiscst({06/15/2003})
                = "09/01/2002 to 08/31/2003"

                ? fiscst({08/31/2002})
                = "09/01/2001 to 08/31/2002"

                ? fiscst({08/31/2003})
                = "09/01/2002 to 08/31/2003"

                If you want the results in date form, you could parse the character return like


                ? ctod(left(fiscst({08/31/2003}),10))
                = {09/01/2002}

                ? ctod(right(fiscst({08/31/2003}),10))
                = {08/31/2003}
                There can be only one.

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                  #9
                  RE: Fiscal Year

                  Stan,

                  I'm still having a problem with the fiscal year calculation I need. I would much prefer doing the calc in the receiving (AppFY) field. To that end, I came up with this:

                  [b]IF((month(Appdate)=>9.AND.month(Appdate)='Appdate' = application date

                  BUT, I get an Expression does not evaluate to a Character value. error. I cannot see where the problem is.

                  Any help would be appreciated.

                  Dave
                  Dave Jampole
                  www.customalpha.com

                  Women and cats will do whatever they want. The sooner men and dogs realize that, the happier they will be.

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                    #10
                    RE: Fiscal Year

                    "FY"+cyear(Appdate)+1

                    evaluates to something like

                    "FY2003" + 1, depending on the value in Appdate,

                    not a good thing.

                    Try substituting

                    cyear(addyears(Appdate,1)) for cyear(Appdate)+1
                    There can be only one.

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                      #11
                      RE: Fiscal Year

                      Stan,

                      Thank you, thank you. You gave me the lead to the solution I needed. Interactive mode unlocked to door - A5 cares very much about the sequence of '=>' vs. '>='; they are NOT the same! This is also true between '=9.AND.month(Appdate)
                      Dave Jampole
                      www.customalpha.com

                      Women and cats will do whatever they want. The sooner men and dogs realize that, the happier they will be.

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