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Accounting Terminology

Fiscal Year

Asked Sunday, January 29, 2012 by an anonymous user

CPA Answer:

A period of one year for which financial statements are prepared that may, or may not, coincide with the calendar year. Any twelve-month period used by a business as its accounting period.
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