I’ve found this comment which seems to suggest it’s begins 1 August or did around the period in question:
“1972. At the beginning of the year, the partners of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche KG passed a resolution to convert the limited partnership into a joint-stock corporation, to take effect from the beginning of the fiscal year on August 1. Dr. Ferry Porsche took over as Chairman of the Supervisory Board, and Dr. Ernst Fuhrmann was appointed spokesman of the Board of Management of Porsche AG. The conversion was preceded by a resolution by the Porsche and Piëch families stating that in future they no longer intended to appoint family members to executive management positions.
1973: Following the company’s conversion into a joint-stock corporation the year before, the name “Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG” was officially entered in the trade register on March 1“
I found the above on a modern Porsche AG site on www so it most be true .. ha ha. While the KG to AG change is not new the comment within it seems quite specific about the start of fiscal yearly cycle. However given the sometimes woeful understanding shown at times by todays AG people about their corporate history I’d prefer to see this corroborated an original document image dating from back the day rather than in a modern summary — for some reason even though it’s not something I’ve looked into I’ve a feeling Porsche fiscal year was / is ( more) aligned to calendar year but not sure why I thought that? Possibly impression is due to the press releases summarising the full report appears in things like panorama etc with a lead tome for the results to be approved and then written up for external consumption by readers of such magazines. Isn’t Volkswagen group year end reporting period end Dec? At the time VG was a fifty fifty sales venture VW - Porsche not just for the 914 but on Europe all Porsche product — not sure without knowing source if some of what summarising this are sales volume or production. Think the figures I posted on image production volume but being a press release hard to sure without seeing data at source which might not been available with KG being limited partnership — that’s before any accountants play around with numbers and PR dept put on the spin.
Anyone got an original fiscal report or other pertinent information from the early 70s?
Steve