Word help: Pre-preceding??

[KimberlyS]

I'm trying to figure out if there is a wod for what I need to say:
November is the Current calendar period
then October is the Preceding calendar period
what is September, in reference to November, Pre-Preceding?
Is there a word for this? I guess I'm looking for a more eloquent way of saying 2 months before.

I've tried looking in online dictionaries and thesauruses (thesaurusi??), but I don't know what to search by. Any help? :confused: Thanks!

[ChristineVA]

It would also be preceding. Preceding is limited to a quantity of one, it encompasses everything that precedes the current month.

[KimberlyS]

Christine,
Thanks for your response. I should have explained that I am trying to use this as a column heading for a report, and my problem is that I can't have two columns which say "preceding period."

You bring up a good point that preceding is probably not a good title for either column, since all periods precede the current.
Hmmm, maybe "1 period prior", and "2 periods prior"

[BucknellAlum]

In accounting I think they use Current Period, then Prior Period, but if you have several, I would use Current Period - 1, Current Period - 2, etc. (That is a "minus" sign)

[peachykeen]

Is there a reason you can't use the name of the month? How far back do you have to go - just September? What about "previous?"

[KimberlyS]

Thanks for the additional replies. I think I am going with Period-1 and Period-2. (Fits nicely in the column.)

There is a problem with using the actual name as the column heading. It has something to do with developing a report in Oracle Discoverer. I am so NOT a programmer, so I can't explain it. I just need to provide a static name for the column heading.