Why Documents Show a Future Date

Q: "This budget is dated next year, is that a mistake?"

Quick Answer

A future date on a document isn't an error. It's the date the account itself put on that document, usually a budget or improvement plan dated to the upcoming fiscal year.

What This Is

Intel pulls source documents directly from the account: budgets, improvement plans, board agendas. The date on the document is whatever the account published, not a date Pursuit assigns.

How It Works

Government and education budgets are commonly approved months ahead of the fiscal year they cover. A parks department budget approved in the fall might carry a start date the following July. When you see a document dated months or a year out, that's the agency's own planning calendar, not Pursuit surfacing something from the future.

What It Doesn't Do

A future date doesn't mean the document is wrong, and it doesn't mean Pursuit is projecting or estimating a date. It's a straight read of what the account published.

Next Step

If a date still looks wrong after checking the source document, flag it to Pursuit via the Support function.