Time Interval Settings

Week 1 starts on January 1

Select this option Week 1 starts on January 1st, regardless of what day of the week that may be. Weeks are then numbered from 1 to 53, where week 53 is a partial week consisting of the 1 or 2 days left over at the end of December.

Each week starts on a weekday

Select this option if full weeks start on a specified day of the week. The first full week of the year starts on the first occurrence of the designated day on or after January 1st. If January 1st happens to be the designated day, then weeks are numbered 1 to 53 as if Week 1 starts on January 1 above.

Set the following:

• The first day of the each week (use the drop-down to select the day)

• Week number of the partial week (default is 0)
  For example  If the first occurrence of the designated day is after January 1st, then the days in January before that first full week are counted as week 0. Weeks are numbered from 0 to 52 (or 53 in some years).

Month-based

Select this option if you have month-based fiscal years that consist of 12 calendar months, starting on the first day of a designated starting month.

For example, you can set October as the starting month. In this case, the fiscal year is from October 1st to the following September 30th.

A month-based fiscal year always contains 365 or 366 days. Month-based fiscal years are subdivided into half-years, quarters, and months (also called periods), or fiscal weeks, with the understanding that there is always a partial week at the start and/or end of the fiscal year.

Week-based

Select this option if you have week-based fiscal years that consist of 52 or 53 fiscal weeks, where each week is a full 7 days starting on a designated day of the week.

To complete the specification for this type of fiscal year, define the following:

• The  first day of each fiscal week

• A reference date (month and day) that defines when the fiscal year begins or ends.

• A rule for the year start and year end.

For example, a fiscal year might be defined as starting on the first Monday on or after May 15th. In this case:

• the week starting day is Monday

• the reference date is May 15th

• the start/end method is starts on or after

The reference date may be any valid month/day combination (except February 29th, for obvious reasons). The start/end method has four supported possibilities:

• The year starts on the first week starting day on or after the reference date.

• The year starts on the week starting day closest to the reference date.

• The year ends on the last week ending day on or before the reference date.

• The year ends on the week ending day closest to the reference date.

The week ending day is inferred from the week starting day.

There are no standardised methods how week-based fiscal years should be divided into half-years, quarters, and periods, but Monarch Data Prep Studio supports two basic methods. Select if:

• The year is divided into four 13-week quarters.

If you select this method  each quarter may be further subdivided into 4- or 5-week periods using any of three patterns: 4-4-5, 4-5-4, or 5-4-4

• The year is divided into thirteen 4-week periods.

If this method is chosen, the periods are obviously each 4-weeks long, but it is still possible to use “Fiscal Quarter” intervals, in which case a quarter is arbitrarily defined as 13 weeks and the quarter boundaries do not, in general, align with the period boundaries.

Interval

Lists the names of the time intervals available.

Formatting Mask

Displays the formatting mask applied to the currently-selected interval.

To edit the formatting mask, double-click on the desired time interval mask and then click  to select from a list of available masks:

Sample Value

Shows the effect of the formatting masks on the sample date. The sample date is displayed on the lower-right corner of the dialog, and you can change the value using the calendar control beside it.

Description

Displays a description of each time interval.