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Organising a fancy airline? Time for an accountant (9,4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

financial year

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'time for an accountant' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.

'organising a fancy airline?' is the wordplay.
'organising' is an anagram indicator.
'a'+'fancy'+'airline'='afancyairline'
'afancyairline' is an anagram of 'FINANCIAL YEAR'.

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(Other definitions for financial year that I've seen before include "April six to April five" , "Accounting or tax period, eg 6 April - 5 April" , "What starts on April 6" , "April 6 to April 5 for most of us" , "Period beginning in early April" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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