Please post the DDL, including all indexes, for the "prj_detail" table.
If the clustered index is on an identity column, you should almost certainly change it to "accounting_period" instead. This is especially true if, as is extremely likely, you (almost) always specify an accounting_period / period range in your queries on this table.
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