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I am using the CiviCRM function   CRM_Utils_Date::calculateFiscalYear( $fyDate, $fyMonth  );  to determine the current fiscal year.  But I am currently hard-coding the parameters for month and date to July 1.

I would prefer to use the global setting for the fiscal year start, which I have already configured at: http://mygroup.org/civicrm/admin/setting/date?reset=1

What is the proper way to retrieve the global setting for the fiscal year start?

If it was an API, what would the "entity" be called?

Also, the fiscal start date is currently stored in the field "config_backend"  in the table "civicrm_domain".   Are there any utility classes that I can use to parse that field into usable chunks?

And quite logically, config seems like a nice entity name, I'd say.
something along (seriously pseudocodish:
api/v3/Config.php

function civicrm_api3_config_get ($params) {
$config = CRM_Core_Config::singleton( );
if (!array_key_exists('name',$params)) {
  return civicrm_api3_create_success($config);
}
if (array_key_exists('name',$params)
  return civicrm_api3_create_success($config[$params['name']])
}
return civicrm_api3_create_error ("config $params['name'] doesn't exist",array_keys($config))

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