quartertodate
Quarter-to-date (QTD) is a time period metric used in finance and business reporting. It refers to the interval from the start of the current fiscal quarter to the current date. QTD is used to measure progress within the quarter and to compare performance against plans, budgets, prior quarters, or forecasts.
Key characteristics include its anchoring to the organization’s fiscal calendar rather than the calendar year. The
Calculation is straightforward: aggregate the relevant metric from the first day of the current quarter up
Examples help illustrate the concept. If a company’s fiscal quarter starts on January 1 and today is
Relation to other measures: QTD is commonly used together with MTD (month-to-date) and YTD. While QTD focuses