Fiscal year 1 January to 31 December. In Hong Kong, the government's financial year runs from 1 April to 31 March. In India, the government's financial year runs from 1 April to 31 March. It is abbreviated as a FY. Companies following the Indian Depositary Receipt (IDR) are given freedom to choose their financial year. For example, Standard Chartered's IDR follows the UK calendar despite being listed in India. Companies following Indian fiscal year get to know their economical health on 31 March of every Indian financial or fiscal year. The current fiscal year was adopted by the colonial British government in
Sense-for-sense translation verbo verbum curabit reddere / fidus interpretes": "not to try to render them word for word [like some] faithful translator." Some have read that passage in Horace differently: In John Dryden’s 1680 preface to his translation of Ovid's Epistles, he proposed dividing translation into three parts called: metaphrase, paraphrase and imitation. Metaphrase is word-for-word and line by line translation from one language into another. Paraphrase is sense-for-sense translation where the message of the author is kept but his words are not so strictly followed as his sense, which too can be altered or amplified. Imitation is the use of either