ADJECTIVE
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taking place at the close of a fiscal year
year-end audit
NOUN
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the end of a calendar year
he had to unload the merchandise before the year-end
How To Use year-end In A Sentence
- Local governments across China have been restricting electricity in order to meet year-end targets for energy conservation.
- Their unfunded pension liabilities were probably more than $16 billion at year-end and retiree healthcare costs are more than three times that level.
- Yardeni -- famous for coining the phrase "bond vigilantes" to describe investors who punish profligate governments -- predicts that global growth of about 5 percent this year will help spur a 15 percent rebound in the MSCI World Index of developed-nation equities from 1279.69 yesterday, and a increase in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index of stocks to 1,500 by year-end from 1273.72. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
- At year-end it was too late to do anything but scramble to others for financial assistance.
- Smurfit was in deficit at its last year-end, so its position is likely to have got a lot worse.
- Future minimum rental commitments for noncancellable operating leases in effect at year-end 2000 approximated $83 million for 2001; $65 million for Recently Uploaded Slideshows
- My wife has been on a cloud since I told her the other day I would spend my year-end bonus at the office to take us to Hawaii to celebrate our twentieth wedding anniversary.
- The government has said only that it will go to the polls by year-end, but an election is expected to be called imminently, likely for late August. Australia Tax Deal Clears Way for Vote
- Many organizations with excellent accounting records and capable staff still rely on their auditors for the preparation of the year-end financials, if only for efficiency.
- Mr Rajan said this is due to general slowdown in employment trends across the country in the backdrop of financial year-end and also because hiring plans have not yet being firmed up by the companies.