>Moises,
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>In addition to what George said, some people store a "Fiscal Period" rather than storing a date. We use something like 200101 which is an integer. It would be pretty easy to go from a receipt date to the fiscalperiod with something like
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>VAL(LEFT(DTOS(dMyDate), 6)) or YEAR(MyDate) * 100 + Month(MyDate).
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>That way in your reporting you only have to group on FiscalPeriod.
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>If the fiscal year starts in July, as some American companies do, you can call the period "CalendarPeriod" and have a table that maps fiscal to calendar periods.

Hi Cindy,

Given that I deal a lot with fiscal months and years, I should've caught this possibility. In these situations, what I do is have a table containing the month name, and the starting and stopping dates for the period. I then use a query utilizing BETWEEN to retrieve the applicable information. Since I still need the date field, this allows me to utilize that, rather than having to populate an additional field.