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[Calle Hedberg <calle.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Knut,

You might argue that users "should" know never to use financial years if
their financial years are calendar years - but what if they don't, and
select a financial year reporting period? Then all the their data in the
analytics tables will be wrong.

So for consistency, the financial year start should include January, April,
July, and October. For countries with financial year = calendar year, the
analytics values will in reality be identical - but at least they are
consistent with reality.

Regards
Calle

On 8 May 2018 at 11:58, Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Calle,
>
> Not sure why you would need to do anything in those cases?
>
> Regards,
> Knut
>
> On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 11:55 AM, Calle Hedberg <calle.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Under system settings, there is only 3 options for specifying the start
>> of the financial/fiscal year: April, July, and October.
>>
>> But what do you select for countries where the financial/fiscal year is
>> equivalent to the calendar year, like Norway or Sierra Leone? (Amusingly,
>> the SL demo is specifying the financial year from October - which is
>> clearly wrong - the fiscal year for SL is Jan-Dec).
>>
>> Regards
>> Calle
>>
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