What is even a separate fiscal year different from that of a calendar year? A detailed answer to this is most welcome. I am asking this particularly in Indian context.
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There are many companies that have their year end occur on dates other than December 31.  What are the advantages to this?
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Throughout the site abbreviated dates are used (Apr 21 at 9:12). This works great for dates within the current year but it seems that as the years roll by it'll become important to include the year in the date. I am not sure that having the time is of value for a post that is a year old. Maybe at a certain threshold replacing the time with the year is appropriate.
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Could someone explain? I understand the basic concepts behind them but I often see them used interchangeably and I get confused.   And now that we're here, how do they differ from a regular function?
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The company will issue (their, its) annual report next month.   In this case, should I use "its" or "their"?
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Background When a date is to be shown that is from this year it is shown as &quot;Mar 12&quot; for the &quot;12th of March&quot; rather than &quot;Mar 12 '14&quot;. While the full form is not what I'm used to (as a European) it is at least unambiguous. However &quot;Mar 12&quot; reads as &quot;March 2012&quot; to me and confuses me every time. Although I have (after months of pain) stopped misreading it I still feel the Parse Error: Needs Stack Exchange Mode and the slight pause as my brain tried to reparse it. The most recent example of someone confused by this is here . I was myself caught by this . Feature request Even for recent dates; once the date is shown at all show the full date including the year. So this post was posted on Mar 22 '14. This seems to have no downsides as it takes no extra space (there needs to be space for the long form anyway) and is much clearer to those of us who don't use an American date system.
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Lets say I have online brokerage A providing me with an individual (non-retirement) investment account. Call it X. I also have a Forex account, call it Y. If I make $500 in X, and -$300 in Y on the year do I owe that income tax as net $200? Or just on $500? What if it was absurd and was x=600 and Y=-4000? Would I still owe taxes on $600? I would imagine it has to be net, right? Obviously ignoring the stuff like different tax brackets, short vs long term capital gains, etc...
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So for the last few months I've been doing a lot of forecasting for my company and specifically I've been looking at monthly forecasts of total weight of different categories of products output's each month.  I've been using time series models such as Arima, ETS, and tslm() within R to do my forecasting, as well as using cross validation to select a model. Over the last two days I've been presenting my results and discussing implementation of my forecasts.  But, I've been asked the same question multiple times and I don't know the answer to it, so let me ask you guys.  If this has been asked before, I apologize.  I'll write out a few questions that hopefully will make clear what I'm trying to understand.  Also, I'd like to keep technical answers about the models in the context of R, since that's what I'm using.   Do time series models take into account the number of days in a month? Particularly, do time series models consider the number of business days in a month? (or is there a way to incorporate this?) Do we even need to worry about this when forecasting using a time series model or does the model account for this?   For instance, lets say in October of 2014 a certain category sold 35,000 lbs of a product, and that there were 31 days, 23 of which were business days.  Well for this year, 2015, there are still 31 days, but now there are only 22 business days.  Just some background on the data, I have monthly data that starts in August of 2008.    So would it possibly be better to average the weight per month with the number of business days and forecast out this way since the # of business days change month to month and year to year?
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I filed an 83(b) election for stock I purchased in 2011 with the IRS with the 30 days window, but later did not include a copy of it in that year’s tax return.   The the purchase price and the fair market value was the same, so no capital gains tax was applicable that year.   Does this matter? And if so how would I remedy this?  Thanks
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Hi everyone and thanks for your help. I have the following situation: a table called statements that contains fields id(int), stmnt_date(date), debit(double), credit(double) and balance(double)   I want to calculate the balance following these rules:   The first row balance (chronologically) = debit - credit and for the rest of the rows  current row balance = chronologically previous row balance + current row debit - current row credit  As you can see on the picture above the rows are not arranged by date and that's why I used the word chronologically twice to emphasize on the importance of the stmnt_date value.  Thank you very much for your help.
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"Semi-annually" describes an event that recurs every 6 months. Is there a similar term for an event that recurs every 3 months? (I'm guessing that "semi-semi-annually" isn't the correct answer.)  More importantly, is there a resource or table somewhere that I can use in the future to construct prefixes for other intervals shorter than a year?
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Why does this javascript return 108 instead of 2008? it gets the day and month correct but not the year?  myDate = new Date(); year = myDate.getYear();   year = 108?
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If I paid my business expenses with a credit card during the month of December, which year can I deduct them from my taxes? 2011 (when the purchase was made) or 2012 (when I paid off the credit card)?  IRS pub reference greatly appreciated
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Are there specific dates for companies to declare ordinary dividends? If so, where can I find these dates? If not, why aren't there fixed dates to prevent excessive volatility and speculation about the dividend date and amount?
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What is the difference between...        We are married for 5 years.      We have been married for 5 years.
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What format of date is appropriate for different contexts (business, personal) in written English, nowadays?   1st of April, 2010 April the 1st, 2010 April 1, 2010 April 01, 2010 another one
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Which is correct, a "two-year" program or "two-years" program?  The difference between two expressions is the absence/presence of "s", i.e., singular or plural.
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Please consider the following sentences:   I worked in China last year.= simple past I was working in China last year.=past continuous.   As I understand it, the simple past is used to describe an action that started and ended at specific times. Since it started at point A and ended at point Z then isn't the intervening time between A and Z continuous? In which case, how would a learner know which of the two sentences to use since they both appear to serve the same function.  I've noticed that some books, including Michael Swann's Practical English usage book, suggest that simple past is used to indicate a short duration whereas a continuous form is used to imply a longer period of time. I personally cant see this.  Any thoughts?