financial year
ECONOMICS, GOVERNMENT
a period of 12 months for which a government records its income and spending:
More than two weeks into the new fiscal year, the state at last has a spending plan.
fiscal year 2011/2012/2013, etc.The Office of Management and Budget has released the federal budget for fiscal year 2011.

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fiscal year
It follows that public spending increased more after fiscalyear 1988 than before fiscalyear 1987.
I then propose two hypotheses that would explain why public spending increases at the end of the fiscalyear.
These sites are to report data accumulated during the previous fiscalyear.
It would not wish to surprise the nation, deep into the fiscalyear, when program spending suddenly threatens to surpass the cap.
Section 5 proposes scenarios and explains why public spending increases later in the fiscalyear.
The most recent data available were for the fiscalyear 1996-97.
Although the rationale for federal action has been accepted, testimony must be given and the appropriations voted for each fiscalyear.
In the fiscalyear 1908-9 its income almost tripled, from £7,546 to £21,214.
This support was augmented during the 1970s, but eliminated from the budget during the fiscalyear 1985/86.
But yearly dummies after fiscalyear 1988 are mostly not significant.
At the time of finalising this paper, the kingdom's consolidated figures for fiscalyear 1999-2000 were not yet available.
These budget totals are prorated over the fiscalyear to derive monthly estimates.
In fiscalyear 1955, a flat payment of 0.7 million yen per project was thus introduced by the central government.
After 1988 is the dummy variable equal to 1 if the observation is from fiscalyear 1988 to 2002.
Delayed stabilization and option value suggest that government spending could increase at the end of the fiscalyear.
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