Use of YTD versus PTD time variable

All,
Are there any reasons to move to YTD or stick with PTD from a system perspective? One reason to stick with PTD may be to comply with a regulated (calender year - December) and non-regulated (financial year - March) closing/reporting in the same application. BPC 7.0 provides the use of two time variables within the same application so that there may be no reason to use PTD. Is the use of YTD easier from a customisation and data migration perspective?
Thank you for your advise.
Marc

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