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🎉 End of year 📊 At fiscal close
year-end

year-end

4 3.2
Happening at the end of a company's financial year
  • adjective
  • /jɪr ɛnd/
translation icon : de fin de ejercicio
  • After completing due diligence, the sale closed two months before the company's fiscal year-end.
  • year-end reading
  • year-end accountability
  • year-end achievement

Examples

  • By the year-end, we need to finalize our budget projections for the following fiscal year.

  • But over the next, let's say until year end, interest rates are probably going to come down significantly.

  • "Tax planning actions taken between now and year-end may be more important than ever."

    Blog text (28)

  • All businesses require a year-end report.

    Academic text (1994)

  • Shares had gone up twentyfold by year end, which is quite incredible as Law had struggled to find subscribers for the initial shares seven months earlier.

  • Management's influence on accounting is the extent to which upper-level management makes year-end changes to accounting estimates.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The finance team prepared a detailed year-end report to summarize the company's financial performance.

  • We always host a party to celebrate our team's achievements at the year-end review.

Synonyms

closing
vsyear-end
2.5

Happening at the end of an event or period

refers specifically to the end of a fiscal or accounting year

Surface Forms

year-end positive

Morphology

year-end = year + end (transparent) = year + end

Direct compound of 'year' + 'end' meaning occurring at or relating to the end of the year, which is predictable from the parts.

Etymology

The word year-end comes from the simple parts year ('a 12-month period') and end ('the close'). As an adjective it describes things done at the close of the business year, like final reports and account checks.