Configuring the Fiscal Year

Create or open the text file to contain customized properties. For more information, see Editing Properties Using MQL.

To configure the starting month of the fiscal year, follow these steps:

Add or edit this line in the file used to import properties into a page object:
```
emxProgramCentral.CompanyStandards.FiscalYear.StartMonth=1
```
In the above example, January is defined as the start of the fiscal year. The month is a numeric value and corresponds to 1 for January, 2 for February, etc.
Set the value for this property depending on your business requirements.

To define the date on which the start date of the fiscal month should start, follow these steps:

Add or edit this line in the file used to import properties into a page object:
```
emxProgramCentral.CompanyStandards.FiscalYear.StartMonth.StartDate=3
```
In above example, January 3 is the start date for the fiscal month.
In general, this is the date of the day defined by the property emxProgramCentral.CompanyStandards.FiscalYear.StartDayOfWeek. However, there is no validation for this rule.
The start date must be a day in the fiscal month.
Set the value for this property depending on your business requirements.

To define the number of weeks combined to be considered as a month, follow these steps:

Add or edit this line in the file used to import properties into a page object:
```
emxProgramCentral.CompanyStandards.FiscalYear.WeeksPerMonth=4,4,5,4,4,5,4,4,5,4,5,5
```
In the above example, in a fiscal year that starts from January 3, 4 weeks is considered to be part of January, 4 weeks comprises February, 5 weeks comprises March, and so on.
This is a comma-separated set of 12 numeric values, which all sum to 52 (the total weeks in a year).
Set the value for this property depending on your business requirements.

To define the start day of the week, follow these steps:

Add or edit this line in the file used to import properties into a page object:
```
emxProgramCentral.CompanyStandards.FiscalYear.StartDayOfWeek=1
```
In the above example, Sunday (1) is configured as the start day of the week and therefore Saturday will be the end of the week.
This is a numeric value from 1 to 7, where 1=Sunday, 2=Monday, 3=Tuesday, 4=Wednesday, 5=Thursday, 6=Friday and 7=Saturday.
Set the value for this property depending on your business requirements.

To configure previous fiscal years, follow these steps:

Add or edit these lines in the file used to import properties into a page object:
```
emxProgramCentral.CompanyStandards.FiscalYear.2015.StartMonth=4
emxProgramCentral.CompanyStandards.FiscalYear.2015.StartMonth.StartDate=1
emxProgramCentral.CompanyStandards.FiscalYear.2015.WeeksPerMonth=4,4,5,4,4,5,4,4,5,4,4,5
emxProgramCentral.CompanyStandards.FiscalYear.2015.StartDayOfWeek=1
```
In these examples, the properties are defined explicitly for fiscal year 2015. For year 2016, an administrator is expected to define 2016-specific keys, or the system will use the default properties. Including the year as a parameter preserves configuration options for each year.
Set the value for this property depending on your business requirements.

To configure the start date of the fiscal year, follow these steps:

Add or edit this line in the file used to import properties into a page object::
```
emxProgramCentral.FiscalCalendar.SeedDate=<date>
```
Specifies a date in DD-MMM-YYYY format. Set the seed date to successfully configure the fiscal year.
Set the value for this property depending on your business requirements.

When finished updating the text file with all properties you want to modify, including the ones shown here, use the text file to modify the emxProgramCentral.properties page object. For more information, see Editing Properties Using MQL.