Thanks for responding. I really appreciate the help and will try it out.
"MGFoster" <me@privacy.com> wrote in message
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> John Ch wrote:
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> > Well at least for 10 years. I have a database that tracks reports[/color][/color]
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> > I am keeping data for a year and a half since two different reports that
> > need to be generated (end of calender year and end of fiscal year).
> >
> > Every 18 months, once reports are done, I manually clear out the data to
> > start over. What I want to do is enter the date of the report by month[/color][/color]
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> > year, and have access translate it to the cooresponding fiscal year.
> >
> > I am thinking of doing a table that will take for example, July 2004 and
> > translate it to Fiscal Year July 2005 (Our fiscals start each July).[/color][/color]
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> > way I need not clear any data or reset the tables manually since this[/color][/color]
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> > can have 120 entries (12 months times 10 years) and be good for that[/color][/color]
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> > of time. Possible?[/color]
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> Sure it's possible. Access (JET db) can hold 2GBs of data.
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> The fiscal year is a function of your company, so you'd have to massage
> the date. I've used The DateAdd() function like this (Debug window):
>
> [Offset = (Months After Jan) + 1. In your case 6 + 1 or 7]
>
> Get today's Qtr when 1st Qtr starts in July:
>
> ? datepart("q", DateAdd("m", Offset, date()))
> 4
>
> Get the FY when FY starts July 1:
>
> ? year(dateadd("m", Offset, #6/1/2004#))
> 2005
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