1 That is certainly the question of the fiscal quarter.

2 However, Qualcomm's profit for the first fiscal quarter ended December 27, rose sharply and beat expectations.

3 For the fiscal quarter that ended Dec. 28, Starbucks reported profit of $64.3 million, a 70 percent decline from the same quarter a year ago.

4 In the fiscal quarter ended March 31, for example, VistaPrint said 6.7% of its $106 million in revenue came from referral fees.

5 Cisco Systems posted record profits and sales for the third fiscal quarter.

6 Motorola made its prediction after announcing a 19 per cent fall in orders during its fourth fiscal quarter.

7 Microsoft said profit from operations rose 45 percent in its second fiscal quarter ending in December.

8 Should you maintain your staff during fallow times at the expense of bottom-line profits for the coming fiscal quarters?

9 Santa Clara-based 3Com Corp. yesterday posted record profits and sales for the third fiscal quarter ended February 29.

10 It launches apps and features that grab market share,[] attract eyeballs and give it the traffic it needs to make billions of dollars per fiscal quarter.

11 The company announced its first quarterly loss in eight years in the third fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2011.

12 Jacobs said earnings before unusual items would be at or above Qualcomm's target, announced in January, for earnings per share of 49 cents to 53 cents for the second fiscal quarter ending this month.

13 Completion of the transaction is subject to certain conditions being satisfied by both sides, and it is expected to be finalized during Oneida 's 2004 first fiscal quarter.

14 Microsoft has seen declines in its operating software before, as recentlyas last year's first fiscal quarter when it fell 4 percent.

15 Total average assets is calculated as the average value of assets over an accounting period, such as a fiscal quarter.

16 The network giant reported better-than-expected results for the second fiscal quarter on Wednesday, and issued a relatively positive forecast.

17 Without the Intel payments, the SEC said, Dell would have missed Wall Street analysts' profit estimates in every fiscal quarter from 2002 to 2006.

18 Nokia is expected to report losses in the second and third fiscal quarter of the year, due to a continuing slide in its smartphone market share.

19 Revenue from its various Windows PC programs, including operating systems, fell 29 percent in the fiscal quarter that ended in June.