Calculate fiscal year in SQL Server
How would you calculate the fiscal year from a date field in a view in SQL Server? I suggest you use a User-Defined Function based on the Fiscal year of your application. CREATE FUNCTION dbo.fnc_FiscalYear( @AsOf DATETIME ) RETURNS INT AS BEGIN DECLARE @Answer INT -- You define what you want here (September being your changeover month) IF ( MONTH(@AsOf) < 9 ) SET @Answer = YEAR(@AsOf) - 1 ELSE SET @Answer = YEAR(@AsOf) RETURN @Answer END GO Use it like this: SELECT dbo.fnc_FiscalYear('9/1/2009') SELECT dbo.fnc_FiscalYear('8/31/2009') Mouli Here is Australian Financial year start date code