BY - Beginning of Year Beginning of Year (BY) will return the 1st day of the year of the date found in Operand 3. Statement: Find the 1st day of the year in which an employee reached their 5-year anniversary with the company. Line CMD OT Operand 1 OPER OT Operand2 OT Operand3 If Goto Else GoTo 00010 LET V HIRE DT PLUS 5 YRS BY DB EEM.HIRE_DATE A +5Y 00100 In the example above, an employee was hired on Dec. 13, 1984. Operand 3 will calculate 5 years in the future, December 1989 and the BY operator will determine the beginning of that year, January 1, 1989. This value will be returned to Operand 1. Refer to BD in page 56 for possible Operand 3 values.