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English translation: non-calendar fiscal/financial year


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German term or phrase:ungerades/schiefes Geschäftsjahr
English translation:non-calendar fiscal/financial year
Entered by: Steffen Walter
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12:05 Sep 24, 2004
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German term or phrase: ungerades/schiefes Geschäftsjahr
ungerades/schiefes Geschäftsjahr ...

Company A (whose business year = calendar year) is taken over by company B (which has a xxx business year, e.g. from June 30 - May 31 every year) and will adopt its business year henceforth. This is certainly not a Rumpfgeschäftsjahr, which would only apply in the first year! Any ideas? e.g. "uneven business year"? Thanks very much.
J. T. Marks
fiscal year
Explanation:
a fiscal year does not necessarely correspond to the calendar year, and this here is such a case

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Fiscal year - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - [ Diese Seite übersetzen ]
Fiscal year. ... However, a new company or business has to decide at the beginning on
which month their fiscal year will start, and then stay with that. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_year - 9k
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5 +1non-calendar fiscal/financial yearRobinB


  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
fiscal year


Explanation:
a fiscal year does not necessarely correspond to the calendar year, and this here is such a case

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Note added at 5 mins (2004-09-24 12:11:13 GMT)
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Fiscal year - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - [ Diese Seite übersetzen ]
Fiscal year. ... However, a new company or business has to decide at the beginning on
which month their fiscal year will start, and then stay with that. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_year - 9k

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agree  Monika Leit
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
non-calendar fiscal/financial year


Explanation:
That's all it's saying here, the point being that most German/Austrian/Swiss companies have the calendar year as their fiscal (US)/financial (UK) year.

Avoid translating Geschäftsjahr as "business year".

Incidentally, shouldn't that be "June 1 - May 31"? :-)

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Check out the following links:

http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pub/gp/rc4022/rc4022-05-e.html

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/euro/techpaper.pdf

whereby there are hundreds of instances of non-calendar fiscal year(-end), rather than financial year.

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Changes made by editors
Jul 16, 2008 - Changes made by Steffen Walter:
Term askedungerades/schiefes Geschftsjahr => ungerades/schiefes Geschäftsjahr
Field (specific)Finance (general) => Accounting
Field (write-in)accounting => (none)
Jul 16, 2008 - Changes made by Steffen Walter:
Edited KOG entrySwissTell's old entry - "ungerades/schiefes Geschäftsjahr" => "fiscal year"


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