FY
Fiscal Year. The company's accounting year, which starts whenever the founders decided decades ago. FY26 starting in July of calendar 2025 is why Finance and everyone else talk past each other.
Heard in the wild
“That budget line is FY26, so nothing moves until August.”
Tone check: Technical
Learn your company's FY calendar cold. Deadlines, budgets, and bonuses all run on it, not on January.