For many organisations, the start of a new financial year is a natural moment to reset shared operational calendars. Budget planning calendars, management meeting schedules, reporting calendars, and board event calendars accumulate entries from the previous year that are no longer relevant to current operations.
Clear historical events from reusable shared calendars; keep the calendar structure, sharing permissions, and any integrations in place. Then add the new financial year's events — new board dates, new reporting cycle, new planning schedule — to the clean calendar.
This avoids the alternative of deleting and recreating calendars, which requires re-sharing with every attendee and reconfiguring any connected tools.
Timing: Run this process during the transition period between financial years — after the old year's final events have passed but before new-year events are added. This gives you a clean starting point for loading the new year's schedule.
Load the new financial year's key dates into each calendar — board meeting schedule, reporting dates, planning cycle, compliance deadlines. With the historical clutter removed, the new year's schedule is easy to navigate and immediately useful to everyone with access.