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Finance and accounting · 13 min

Budgets and forecasts

Before a year starts, the finance team writes down how much the company will sell and spend, month by month. Then the year happens. Here's how the plan is built, checked and changed.

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How big is the holiday quarter?

GameStop sells video games and game consoles. If its sales were the same all year, each three-month quarter would bring in a quarter of the year's sales. What share of its sales in its 2025 business year came in its holiday quarter, about November to January?

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  • GameStop Corp. annual report (Form 10-K), fiscal 2025 (52 weeks ended January 31, 2026) · GameStop Corp., filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 2025

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  • 30%sec.gov ·2025 · About this share of GameStop's fiscal 2025 sales came in its fourth quarter (roughly November to January, the holiday season), by its 10-K.
  • 34%sec.gov ·2025 · About this share of GameStop's fiscal 2024 sales came in its fourth quarter, by its fiscal 2025 10-K.
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Finance and accounting · 13 min

Budgets and forecasts

Before a year starts, the finance team writes down how much the company will sell and spend, month by month. Then the year happens. Here's how the plan is built, checked and changed.

HOURS
Ticket 01 · The guess

How big is the holiday quarter?

GameStop sells video games and game consoles. If its sales were the same all year, each three-month quarter would bring in a quarter of the year's sales. What share of its sales in its 2025 business year came in its holiday quarter, about November to January?

10%
0%100%
Words to know

Spot something wrong?

Tell us what looks off. No name or email needed.

What kind of problem?

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We'll also send this page, the lesson, ticket 1, so we can find it. Nothing else. Privacy

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Sources and every number (1)

Sources

  • GameStop Corp. annual report (Form 10-K), fiscal 2025 (52 weeks ended January 31, 2026) · GameStop Corp., filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 2025

Every number

  • 30%sec.gov ·2025 · About this share of GameStop's fiscal 2025 sales came in its fourth quarter (roughly November to January, the holiday season), by its 10-K.
  • 34%sec.gov ·2025 · About this share of GameStop's fiscal 2024 sales came in its fourth quarter, by its fiscal 2025 10-K.
  1. Lessons›
  2. Inside a business›
  3. Finance and accounting
  • ·Before this: Closing the books
  • ·Next: Controls and audits