When a company's release schedule says "Q4" when does that mean?

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Nogamez on 14 January 2021

Calender year not fiscal year

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AngryLittleAlchemist on 14 January 2021

curl-6 said:

For context, I'm wondering about the recent Capcom leak which apparently has a new Resident Evil game for Switch scheduled for Q4 2021, wasn't sure if that meant end of this year or early next year.

I too am concerned for when the best developer releases yet another masterpiece for the Nintendo Switch family of systems.

Shot in the dark, but, I'm pretty sure Capcom's fiscal year is the standard January-March as "Quarter 4", right? And also, there's been a consistent trend since Resident Evil 7 of the RE games releasing around that time period (REVII: January 24th, 2017, REmake 2: January 25th, 2019, REmake 3: April 3rd, 2020). So that seems quite likely. Would also space out their titles so MHR goes into one fiscal year and RE Switch is in another fiscal year, making one year less lopsided.

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Wman1996 on 14 January 2021

Q1: Jan, Feb, March
Q2: Apr, May, Jun
Q3: Jul, Aug, Sep
Q4: Oct, Nov, Dec

And as for the seasons, those are pretty self expanalotry. Holiday tends to mean November and December, though it can occasionally mean the last week of October as well (Super Mario Odyssey).

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mjk45 on 14 January 2021

SKMBlake said:

Cobretti2 said:

Yes they do. Each country defines their 12month period for what they deem to be a financial year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_year

No, companies can decide when their fiscal year starts and ends. Your wikipedia page mostly refers to the government fiscal year, which isn't related to the topic.

And setting up companies and deciding their fiscal year is basically my job.

SKMBlake is right , in Australia the financial year is july 1st to June 30th , but a company can make a request to the stock exchange to change their financial year , this is usually done by shortening the current financial year so the new reporting date aligns with the month you chose, an example would be if you chose November 1st to October 31 that would mean a 4 month financial year report followed by annual reporting using the new dates.

There are a number of reasons why this can be beneficial, one is you aren't reporting with everyone else so you have more market visibility, another is better access to auditing firms.

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