Current Fiscal Year

Question

Hi,
Is there an oracle function that returns the current fiscal year in format (2012/2013)?
Thanks

Answer 1

Hi,
sliderrules wrote:
Is there an oracle function that returns the current fiscal year in format (2012/2013)?That depends on what you mean by fiscal year.
If a fiscal year begins on April 1 of every calendar year, then
ADD_MONTHS ( TRUNC ( ADD_MONTHS (d, -3)
                  , 'YEAR'
        , 3
        )is the beginning of the fiscal year that contains DATE d. The "magic number" 3 reflects the fact that the fiscal year starts 3 months after the calendar year.
If you want a string like '2012/2013' that shows the calendar years when the fiscal year begins/ends, then use the expression above to get the beginning date, use EXTRACT to get the year as a number, and then add 1 to it.
If you're just interested in the year number, as in your message, then you don't need the outer ADD_MONTHS or TRUNC; you can just EXTRACT the year from <tt>ADD_MONTHS (d, -3)</tt>
You might consider a user-defined function for this. It will be slower than doing it in pure SQL, but it will be a lot more convenient. You don't have to use the function in situations where performance is an issue.
I hope this answers your question.
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Edited by: Frank Kulash on Mar 14, 2013 11:30 AM