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Verify Fiscal Calendar Report Boundaries

Fiscal-calendar verification tests period membership where readers expect familiar labels to be reliable. Exercise dates around fiscal edges and compare the same report under calendar and fiscal controls. Preserve dictionary revision, labels, included rows, and export context so a passing total does not hide a boundary shift.

Check whether the outcome improved

  1. Define period assertions

    Write expected fiscal year, quarter, month, week, start, end, label, and included records for each boundary fixture. State stub and extra-week behavior or mark it unsupported. A pass requires the visible label and date range to describe the same period.

  2. Exercise boundary controls

    Run before-edge, edge, after-edge, closed, stub, and extra-week cases through cards, tables, charts, filters, comparisons, and exports. Compare membership and labels with the versioned calendar. Record any intentional difference between fiscal and ordinary calendar views.

  3. Review period meaning

    Ask a reviewer to explain which dates belong to the selected fiscal period and what comparison basis the report uses. Preserve source revision, dictionary revision, filter state, and evidence. Record a bounded result when a surface omits the period definition but returns correct membership.

What to carry forward

Verification passes when boundary dates, fiscal labels, included rows, and comparisons agree with the approved dictionary. Report a bounded pass for unsupported period shapes. Keep verification inconclusive when a familiar label masks a different date range or the export drops its fiscal basis.

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