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Financial years

Configure your financial year in Beacon for accurate reporting

Updated over 2 months ago

Note: This feature is only available with the Finance element

Beacon makes it easy to store your financial year for reporting purposes, including filters and chart grouping.


Configuring your financial year

  1. Open Settings > Charity preferences

  2. Scroll down to the Financial section, and choose the month when your financial year starts.


Using financial years

Filtering

When filtering records (e.g. payments) using a date field, the following options are available:

  • This financial year

  • Next financial year

  • Last financial year

Charts

You can also group by financial year, when grouping using any date field:


Frequently asked questions

Is it possible to export financial year to CSV

Not currently. If this would be useful to you, please let us know!

Our financial year starts during a particular day of the month. Is it possible to set a day (e.g. 6th April)?

Not at the moment! Please let us know if this is important to you.

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