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# Choose a Custom Fiscal Year Template

When defining a new custom fiscal year, your first step is to choose a custom fiscal year template.

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These templates are available to make it easier for you to define your custom fiscal year. They create a simple custom fiscal year that you can customize to meet your exact needs.

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Note If you choose a template and realize that it is not the best one for your fiscal year definition, you can reset it at any time using the **Reset Fiscal Year Structure** option.

Choose one of three types of templates:

- **4 Quarters per Year, 13 Weeks per Quarter**
    
    Choose one of these templates for your fiscal year if you want each quarter to have the same number of weeks per quarter. These templates all have 4 quarters, 12 periods, and 52 weeks per year. Each quarter is 13 weeks long and is composed of three periods. Two of the periods in each quarter are 4 weeks, and one is 5 weeks. In a 4-4-5 template, for example, the first and second period of a quarter are 4 weeks long, and the third period is 5 weeks long. Weeks are always 7 days long. A typical customization for these templates is to add extra weeks for leap years.
    
    <table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small "><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap">4-4-5</td><td class="slds-cell-wrap">Within each quarter, period 1 has 4 weeks, period 2 has 4 weeks, and period 3 has 5 weeks</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap">4-5-4</td><td class="slds-cell-wrap">Within each quarter, period 1 has 4 weeks, period 2 has 5 weeks, and period 3 has 4 weeks</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap">5-4-4</td><td class="slds-cell-wrap">Within each quarter, period 1 has 5 weeks, period 2 has 4 weeks, and period 3 has 4 weeks</td></tr></tbody></table>
- **13 Periods per Year, 4 Weeks per Period**
    
    Choose one of these templates if your fiscal year has more than 12 periods and if one quarter is longer than the other quarters. These templates all have 4 quarters per year, 13 periods per year, 3 or 4 periods per quarter, 53 weeks per year, and 4 weeks per period (5 weeks in the final period). Weeks generally have 7 days, but include a short week at the end of a year. The most common customization for this type of template is to create or change the length of a short week.
    
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- **Gregorian Calendar**
    
    12 months/year, standard Gregorian calendar.
    
    Unlike the other template styles, you can’t do advanced customization of a fiscal year that has been created from a Gregorian calendar template. Only use this template if you want to create a fiscal year that follows the Gregorian calendar. This template mimics the functionality of standard fiscal years.

#### See Also

- [Define Your Fiscal Year](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=xcloud.admin_about_cfy.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Specify a fiscal year that fits your business needs.")