Fiscal year July to the next 30 June and applies also to the budget. The company and personal financial year is 1 April to 31 March and applies to company and personal income tax. The Pakistani government's fiscal year is 1 July of the previous calendar year and concludes on 30 June. Private companies are free to observe their own accounting year, which may not be the same as government's fiscal year. In Portugal, the fiscal year is the calendar year, 1 January to 31 December. In Qatar, the fiscal year is from 1 January to 31 December. In Romania, the fiscal
The Financial Lives of the Poets The Financial Lives of the Poets The Financial Lives of the Poets is the fifth novel by the American writer Jess Walter. It is a comedic novel first published in 2009. The novel explores the global financial crisis, through the eyes of a business reporter turned poet. Reception of the novel was generally positive. "The New York Times" was largely positive, calling it successful at "captur[ing] the fiscal panic and frustration" and full of "blistering wisecracks". "The Los Angeles Times" called it "darkly funny, surprisingly tender [and] verse sprinkled", though the review highlighted the characters in the novel as flawed