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The FTSE 100 Index with its 100 constituents [10] was launched on 3 January 1984. [10] [9] The market capitalisation weighted FTSE 100 index replaced the price-weighted FT30 Index as the performance benchmark for most investors. [11] The FTSE 100 broadly consists of the largest 100 qualifying UK companies by full market value. [12]
The UK fiscal year ends on 5 April each year. The financial year ends on 31 March of each year. Thus, the UK budget for financial year 2021 runs from 1 April 2021 to 31 March 2022 and is often referred to as 2021–22. Historically, the budget was usually released in March, less than one month before the beginning of the new fiscal year.
For the financial year of 2013–2014 public sector net borrowing was £93.7 billion. [134] This was £13.0 billion higher than in the financial year of 2012–2013. Taxation in the United Kingdom may involve payments to at least two different levels of government: local government and central government (HM Revenue & Customs).
Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), in accounting and business, refers to the interrelated financial management activities of budgeting, forecasting, and analysis. FP&A differs from accounting (and personal financial planning) in that it is both qualitative and quantitative analysis, and more generally, in its forward looking orientation.
There are two basic approaches that can be used: bottom up analysis and top down analysis. [2] These terms are used to distinguish such analysis from other types of investment analysis, such as quantitative and technical. Fundamental analysis is performed on historical and present data, but with the goal of making financial forecasts. There are ...
Generally Accepted Accounting Practice in the UK, or UK GAAP or GAAP (UK), is the overall body of regulation establishing how company accounts must be prepared in the United Kingdom. Company accounts must also be prepared in accordance with applicable company law (for UK companies, the Companies Act 2006 ; for companies in the Channel Islands ...
Debt interest has grown as a proportion of government spending in the last few years as a result of rising interest rates, and increased debt due to primarily to the cost of the Covid pandemic. [10] In financial year 2018-19, debt interest was £43 billion - around 5% of total government spending [11] compared to around 10% in 2023-24.
This is a list of recessions (and depressions) that have affected the economy of the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. In the United Kingdom a recession is generally defined as two successive quarters of negative economic growth, as measured by the seasonally adjusted quarter-on-quarter figures for real GDP. Name Dates Duration Real GDP reduction Causes Other data Great Slump c. 1430 ...