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/START_DATE=date

Base date for your fiscal calendar; all fiscal calendars are calculated relevant to this base date. This date defines the first day of a 53-week fiscal year. This fiscal year must not be a leap year (must not contain February 29th). The date has the following format: dd-mmm-yyyy (for example, 28-Jun-1981).

Fiscal years always end on the same day of the week. The manager supports both of the methods for determining the end of a fiscal year described in IRS Publication 538. These two methods are:

1. The fiscal year ends on the last day of the week in the month.
2. The fiscal year ends on the day of the week closest to the end of the month.

   The manager uses the base date given to determine which method to use.

   The following information discusses tips on how to choose an appropriate start date.

If you have access to your company’s fiscal calendar:

• Choose as your fiscal start date the first day of a 53-week fiscal year that does not contain a leap year (a year that does not have a February 29th).

If you do not have access to your company’s fiscal calendar:

• Determine on what Day of the Week (DOW) your company’s fiscal calendar starts. This is usually Sunday.
• Find out what method (Last-DOW-in-Month or Closest-DOW-to-End- of-Month) your company wants to use to determine the end of its fiscal year.
• To use Last-DOW-in-Month Method: the base date chosen should be five days before the end of the month. For example, to end your fiscal year on the last DOW in June your start date should be June 25th. Determine the year of the fiscal start date by looking for a calendar year in which this day falls on the desired day of the week. For example, June 25th is a Sunday in 1989. Your fiscal start date would then be 25-Jun-1989.
• To use Closest-DOW-to-End-of-Month Method: the base date chosen should be two days before the end of the month. For example, to end your fiscal year on the DOW closest to the end of June your start date should be June 28th. Determine the year of the fiscal start date by looking for a calendar year in which this day falls on the desired day of the week. For example, June 28th is a Sunday in 1981. Your fiscal start date would then be 28-Jun-1981.

Make sure that the Fiscal Year starting with your base date is not a leap year (does not contain February 29th). Keep in mind that the fiscal year starting with your base date will be a 53-week fiscal year.

Note: As with the functionality of the Special Days support feature, if the Fiscal Calendar is modified in any way, the next run time of jobs will not be automatically recalculated until the jobs run again and recalculation occurs as a normal process. For those jobs that may be affected, users must manually modify the next run time of the jobs to reflect any modifications to the Fiscal Calendar.