DateTimeX-Fiscal-Fiscal5253 version 0.01
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Compute dates used to create a 52/53 week calendar from a DateTime object.

The 52/53 week calendar is a fiscal calendar standard widely used by
companies that need easy comparison between sales periods from year
to year. It is recognized as a Generally Accepted Accounting Practice and
by the IRS as an alternative to a traditional calendar year or a fiscal
year based on twelve calendar months.

Its primary distinguishing characteristic is that it always begins and ends
on the same weekday. In addition, a 52/53 week year will always have exactly
52 or 53 perfect seven day weeks, yielding calendars that always have
either 364 or 371 days. This is what makes it useful for year-over-year
comparisons where seasonal factors such as holidays are important.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

  Carp
  DateTime

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2012 by Jim Bacon

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.8 or,
at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED
WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.

The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included
with this module.
