Q4
Year's final stretch
Q4 is the fourth quarter of a fiscal or calendar year, typically October through December.
In business contexts, Q4 carries special weight as the final stretch before annual reports: We need strong Q4 numbers to hit our targets.
Retailers depend heavily on Q4 holiday shopping.
Q1, Q2, and Q3 follow the same pattern for earlier quarters.
Money gained from work
- financialsMonetary records and reports
- reportingConveying documented information
- projectionsEstimates extending forward
- forecastingEstimating future conditions
revenue · profitability · performance · metrics · KPIs · benchmarking · accounting · budget
earnings
Money gained from work
- financialsMonetary records and reports
- reportingConveying documented information
- projectionsEstimates extending forward
forecasting · revenue · profitability · performance · metrics · KPIs · benchmarking · accounting · budget · fiscal year
two-minute warning
Automatic NFL timeout signal
- comebackRecovery after decline
- hurry-up offenseRapid-tempo football strategy
- timeoutBrief suspension of play
drive · endgame · crunch time · clutch · overtime · Hail Mary · scoring · lead · deficit · momentum
- business quartersQ1, Q2, Q3
- time periodsday, year, month, week, hour
- business calendarQ1, Q2, Q3, fiscal year, budget cycle
- fiscal quartersQ1, Q2, Q3, fiscal year
- trimesters & termsfirst trimester, second trimester, third trimester, semester, term
- Quantilesquantile, percentile, quartile, quintile, decile
Q4Q1
Seventeenth letter
first quarter · first half · Q2 · second quarter · Q3
quarter, quarterly, quarters, quartered, quartering, quadrant, quadrants, quart, quarts