Customize the Fiscal Year Structure
If your custom fiscal year needs a different structure than one available from the templates, modify the details of your custom fiscal year definition.
Required Editions
| Available in: both Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience |
| Available in: All Editions except for Database.com. |
| User Permissions Needed | |
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| To define or edit fiscal years: | Customize Application |
If you want to return to a fiscal year template, select a template from the Reset Fiscal Year Structure drop-down list. However, resetting the fiscal year structure to a template removes all the customizations you made to the fiscal year.
You can easily add or remove fiscal periods (such as quarters, periods, or weeks) from the fiscal year structure.
- From Setup, click Company Profile | Fiscal Year.
- Click Edit for the fiscal year you want to edit.
- If it is not already expanded, expand the Advanced Customization section.
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At this point you can add and remove fiscal periods, and change the length of
fiscal periods.
- To add a new fiscal period, select the checkbox for the period before
the new period, then click Insert.
For example, to add a quarter, and you want it to be the second quarter, select the checkbox for the first quarter. The maximum number of fiscal periods is 250.
- To remove a fiscal period, select the checkbox for the period you want
to delete, then click Delete.
You must have at least one quarter, one period, and one week. If you delete a fiscal period or quarter, you delete forecast adjustments and quotas for that period or quarter.
- To change the length of a fiscal period, choose the length from the
Duration drop-down list for the fiscal week.
To change the duration of a fiscal period or quarter, insert or delete weeks, or change the length of weeks that compose the period or quarter.
- To add a new fiscal period, select the checkbox for the period before
the new period, then click Insert.
- After you have customized your fiscal year, preview the fiscal year definition.
- Save your work.

