Period Fundamental Fiscal Variant¶
Overview¶
Period is a topics for control the period
You have the following options when defining your fiscal year variant depending on the calendar year:
Your fiscal year variant corresponds with the calendar year.
Your fiscal year variant is different to the calendar year (non-calendar fiscal year). Posting periods can also be different to calendar months.
Your fiscal year variant is year-specific, this means that it is only valid for a defined calendar year.
Fiscal year variant corresponds with the calendar year
If your fiscal year variant corresponds with the calendar year, the following definitions apply:
The fiscal year starts on 1st January.
12 posting periods are available.
The periods match the calendar months. You do not have to define the individual periods. The system automatically adopts the calendar months.
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Non-calendar fiscal year
If your fiscal year variant is different to the calendar year, you must define the following:
how many posting periods you require
how the system should determine the posting periods and the fiscal year when posting from the posting date:
Posting Periods
In order for the system to be able to determine the posting periods, specify month limits and day limits for the period end for each period.
Caution Caution
For February, enter the day limit 29th. This ensures that the system can determine the correct posting period, even in a leap year. If you enter 28th of February as the day limit, the transactions figures posted on 29th of February will be written in the next period. If the next period is not yet open, an error message is issued.
Fiscal year
As your fiscal year is not the same as the calendar year, you must specify the so-called year shift for each posting period. Entries -1 , 0 and +1 are available.
Example Example
Your fiscal year starts on 1st of April and ends on 31st of March. Start and end of a calendar month match the dates of your periods.
As the fiscal year does not match the calendar year, you specify with the year shift how the system determines the fiscal year. If you post, for example, with the posting date 03.02.1999, the system determines the posting period 11 in fiscal year 1998 based on your definition of fiscal year variant.
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Posting periods are different to calendar months
If your posting periods do not match the calendar months with a non-calendar fiscal year, define this difference by specifying the day of the end of the period.
Example Example
Your fiscal year starts on 16th of April and ends on 15th of April. Start and end of a calendar month do therefore not match the start and end of your periods.
You must split the period from 12.16 to 01.15 into two posting periods as different specifications are necessary for the year shift. This means that you must define two posting periods for posting period 9 (with year shift 0 and -1).
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The system would determine the following posting period and following fiscal year from the following posting dates in the example:
Posting date
Year change factor
Period
Fiscal year
20.12.1998
0
9
1998
13.01.1999
-1
9
1998
Year-specific fiscal year variants
You can define a year-specific fiscal year variant, this means, you define a fiscal year variant that is only valid for a specific calendar year.
Select the field Year-specific when defining your fiscal year variant. You must then re-enter the ends of periods, defined by month and day limit, for each calendar year.
The entries for the year shift refer to the calendar year for which you define the periods in this case. The respective year is displayed when editing the end of periods.
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Period in which the fundamental data will be viewed. The default period is last fiscal year end. This field will only work to override fields for which fundamental data is available. Please refer to Primary Periodicity (DZ373, PRIMARY_PERIODICITY) for a company's primary report periods.
When used with product and geographic bulk data fields, this field sets the starting period from which to obtain the bulk data.
Y - returns the last fiscal year end (this is the default for current value returns; historical calls may default to a different period) Q - returns the last quarter end Q1 - returns the Q1 of the year specified in DS324 Q2 - returns the Q2 of the year specified in DS324 Q3 - returns the Q3 of the year specified in DS324 Q4 - returns the Q4 of the year specified in DS324 S - returns the last semi-annual period S1 - returns the 1st semi-annual period of the year specified in DS324 S2 - returns the 2nd semi-annual period of the year specified in DS324 C- returns the last cumulative quarter end C1 - returns the C1 of the year specified in DS324 C2 - returns the C2 of the year specified in DS324 C3 - returns the C3 of the year specified in DS324 C4 - returns the C4 of the year specified in DS324
For bulk data fields: -M sets the most recent month as the starting period for the bulk data
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- Any number from 1 to 12 sets a specific month of the calendar year specified in DS324 as the starting period for the bulk data. For example, 1 indicates January and sets the starting month as January, 2 indicates February and sets the starting month as February, and so on. When DS324 is left blank, the number will set the latest available corresponding month as the starting period.
Custom User Data Fields: The following period types, as well as Equity Fundamental Year (DS324, EQY_FUND_YEAR), are supported for use wiith custom user data fields: Q1 - returns the Q1 of the year specified in DS324 Q2 - returns the Q2 of the year specified in DS324 Q3 - returns the Q3 of the year specified in DS324 Q4 - returns the Q4 of the year specified in DS324 S1 - returns the 1st semi-annual period of the year specified in DS324 S2 - returns the 2nd semi-annual period of the year specified in DS324 A - returns the most recent yearly value
Equity Index: Period in which the fundamental data will be viewed. The default period is Annual. This field will only work to override fields for which fundamental data is available.
Q - returns the most recent Quarterly values S - returns the most recent Semiannual values M - returns the most recent Monthly values (available only for select fields on Bloomberg Industries indices)
Relative Period¶
Returns standardized financial statement data for income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement and over 100 associated calculations for a given company. Data for income statement, cash flow statement, and calculations is available on a FY, QTR (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4), TTM (Q1TTM, Q2TTM, Q3TTM), and YTD (Q2YTD, Q3YTD) basis. Data for the balance sheet is available on a FY or QTR (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4) basis only due its point-in-time nature.