How to Use financial year in a Sentence

financial year

noun
  • Sales of the drink declined 14% in the first half of the financial year.
    Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The jobs in the latest layoffs will be cut over the rest of the 2023 financial year.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 27 June 2023
  • In the most recent financial year, the duchy produced £24 million in income for the King.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 2 May 2023
  • It was set at £86.3 million for this financial year, the same as the previous year.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 2 May 2023
  • The documents cover the financial year up to Dec. 2022.
    K.j. Yossman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2023
  • In order to balance the books, Barca could do with making these sales before June 30, which is when the club's financial year ends.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Around the end of this financial year, will be the first time my income will surpass the minimum HECS repayment threshold.
    Refinery29 Australia Team, refinery29.com, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Alongside the letter was the release of the company’s proxy statement for the preceding financial year, which revealed the pay packets of not only Jassy but his peers at the top of the chain.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2023
  • And after that the monarchy is set to receive a significant pay rise come the financial year beginning in April 2025.
    Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 20 July 2023
  • Wide Release Operators said that the park has been profitable since summer 2023 and that after the end of the financial year the park has continued to perform well.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 25 June 2024
  • Management said that some 20.8 million PlayStation consoles were sold in the financial year.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 14 May 2024
  • In the last financial year, when Apple’s figure stood at only 24%, India’s overall smartphone exports were in the ninth position.
    Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 12 June 2023
  • For comparison, that equals 11% of the United Kingdom’s defense budget for the entire financial year.
    Hanna Ziady, CNN, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The government withdrew the tax benefits in the financial year when the owners or their spouses were charged or convicted, Gan explained in a statement published Tuesday.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Asia, 3 July 2024
  • In November, the city and unions representing Detroit police agreed to a new five-year contract that included both one-time raises and percentage raises through the 2026 financial year.
    Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 28 Apr. 2023
  • At the group level, Sony reported a 22% surge in quarterly sales for the October to December period – the third quarter in its ongoing financial year.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 14 Feb. 2024
  • In the last full financial year, the company recorded 77% customer growth in package holiday bookings, which generated more than a quarter of the group’s pretax profits.
    Adam Gale, Fortune Europe, 20 May 2024
  • What Stanley didn’t know was that in 2003 the city changed its benefits plan for disabled retirees while undergoing budget cuts during a difficult financial year.
    Martin E. Comas, Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2024
  • Alibaba, China’s e-commerce and entertainment giant, revealed a 9% revenue improvement and a return to profits in the three months to the end of September, the second quarter of its financial year.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The new land will not help current year figures, however, as the park operates an unusual financial year running from October to September.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 12 Sep. 2023
  • It was fully closed for three and a half months (longer than the previous financial year) and operated under other social distancing and pandemic measures.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 15 May 2023
  • The company noted several PC and console, mobile and trading card games had come through Middle-earth Enterprises during the financial year.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 20 June 2024
  • Occurring ahead of the start of the new financial year in April, negotiations typically begin in February or March with thousands of unions across the country starting the bargaining process with employers.
    Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2023
  • The companies expect the deal to close in the first half of Emerson’s 2024 financial year, subject to regulatory clearance and approval by National Instruments shareholders.
    Thomas Black, Bloomberg.com, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The prior financial year she was awarded a salary of roughly $1 million, in addition to about $4 million from mostly stocks and options, an annual incentive plan, and covered expenses, like access to a company jet.
    Jo Constantz, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Donor funds are often contingent on projects showing verifiable results within a single financial year.
    Abraham George, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Most public sector workers have been offered raises of 4% or 5% for the current financial year, which is significantly lower than the annual inflation rate which has been above 10% for seven consecutive months.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 2 May 2023
  • However, its remuneration committee felt that not rewarding the top team financially would hurt their motivation and retention prospects for the next financial year.
    Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 28 May 2024
  • Unlike most Japanese companies, Renesas’ financial year starts on Jan. 1.
    Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 25 July 2024
  • India is already pouring money into revamping its railways – capital expenditure last financial year was around $23 billion.
    Sushmita Pathak, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 June 2023

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