The Fiscal Years table can be used to link contracts or other records to particular fiscal years for reporting or budget management. It is pre-populated with about 30 fiscal years based on a fiscal year start date of July 1.
Each fiscal year record has a start and end date, a description of the fiscal year and a numeric version of the fiscal year. The Years from Current Year field is used for reporting purposes and to identify the current fiscal year and any other years in relationship to it. The current year has a value of 0, while the preceding year is -1, the next year is 1, and so on. This way, searches for reports can be created to find records for this fiscal year and next (i.e. those whose Years from Current year =0 or 1) or this year and the two previous (Years from Current year is Less than 1 and more than -3), and so on.
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