The phrase "actual quarter" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific quarter of a year, particularly in financial or business contexts.
Example: "The company's revenue for the actual quarter exceeded our expectations."
Alternatives: "current quarter" or "specific quarter".
An actual quarter-pound of lean ground beef has half the calories of a half-pound hamburger (-308).
For these, make sure that they give back actual quarters instead of tokens in return.
Actual second quarter results could be substantially different from the current estimate and will depend on market levels and portfolio actions related to investments held by the Chief Investment Office (CIO), as well as other activities in Corporate during the remainder of the quarter.
Then came the actual second-quarter results this week.
But regulators then allowed the banks to adjust those figures based on their actual first-quarter performance.
Oddly, Truman devotes only a paragraph or so to his actual living quarters, perhaps because as a tenant there (his landlord was Oliver Smith, the famous stage designer) he lived below street level in two basement rooms.
Joseph Liro, an economist who follows the equity market at Stone & McCarthy Research Associates in Princeton, N.J., said that once the actual third-quarter reports for all the companies in the S.& P. 500 index were tallied the earnings growth would be strong, meaning the current pessimism is off base and that "the stock market has overshot on the downside".
That's going to leave investors swinging until April, when actual first-quarter results are reported.
Hogan says that investors will be focused on the company forecasts, so conference calls will override the actual third-quarter numbers.
After a nightmare Q3 and Q4 in 2010 (fiscal, not the actual calendar quarters) with Online Services loses right around $700 million, it looked like Microsoft may be turning things around with loses of "only" around $550 million in Q1 and Q2 of 2011.
