Creating Fiscal Calendar Schedules

Use fiscal calendars when uniform accounting periods are required through the year.

A fiscal calendar is a span of 365 days (366 in leap years) during which the financial activities of an organization are calculated. A fiscal year is divided into fiscal periods, typically defined as semesters, quarters, or months. A fiscal calendar can start on any day of the year. Fiscal calendars result in more uniform accounting periods throughout the year.

Fiscal calendars create uniform accounting periods throughout the year

Examples

Fiscal calendar schedules are useful for the following types of scenarios:

Run task XYZ on the last Friday of each fiscal month.
Run task XYZ on the second and fourth Friday of each fiscal month.
Run task XYZ on the last Friday of each fiscal quarter. If Friday is a holiday, run the task on the prior workday.
Run task XYZ on the last Friday of each fiscal month, except for the dates included in a Holiday skip calendar. On skip days, run the task on the prior weekday.

Fields

When you select Fiscal in the Units group box on the Frequency tab, Applications Manager displays the fields shown in the image above. The fields are described below.

Field	Description
Name	The Name field is used to select a fiscal calendar. Fiscal calendars are created by running the CREATE_FISCAL_CALENDARS job. When you define a fiscal calendar, you determine its: start date fiscal calendar type (445, 454, 544, 444) start day of week For more information on creating fiscal calendars, see Creating Fiscal Calendars.
Run days	The run days specify the days of the week (Mo, Tu, We, etc.) that the task is eligible to run.
Exception method	The Exception method box determines how Applications Manager will handle days that are skipped by a skip calendar or are included on the schedule's Exceptions tab. For more information, see Setting Reschedule From and Exception Method Options.
Period	The periods are the fiscal months. If the 444 fiscal calendar is used, there will be a 13th period.
Week	The cycles are the weeks in a month. If there is a fifth week, it is designated by the Last option. If you select only the Last option, this designates the last week in the month, which will always be the forth or fifth week.
Skip Calendar	Defines dates on which the task will not run.