[GNC] Are accountants happy with CVS exports?

[Michael or Penny Novack]

This discussion merits a comment.

ALL .csv means is an indication that the data is in a file of "records" 
each of which contains data fields separated by commas. It does not mean 
ANYTHING about what the fields mean (what sort of data is there) or what 
is the logical order of the fields.

Thus a record with the data  A,BAC,WYZ,LMNOP  would be a perfectly well 
ordered record with four fields separated by commas. But it would have 
no meaning to your accountant.

So what we are really talking about "would an accountant be happy with 
data exported from gnucash in .csv (with the fields that gmucash puts 
into these records, in the order in which gnucash puts them, etc.). For 
example, the data that the accountant want might be there but not in the 
order expected by his or her software.

<< those of you using a 'nix OS should be able to write a shell script 
to rearrange the order --Note that this cannot be a responsibility of 
gnucash to :get the order right" as no way to know what order is 
required. AFAIK there is no accepted standard << but if there were, then 
a request "make the export/imports of gnucash match this published 
standard" would be a legitimate request >>


Michael D Novack