[GNC] Compare two sets of accounts?

[Adrien Monteleone]

Along with the idea of exporting your present book via CSV, when you get 
back the file from the accountant, export that book as CSV too. Then do 
a diff on the CSV files.

Those should be less messy to read than the XML.

You could then take the diff results as a CSV and import them.

Regards,
Adrien

On 1/19/24 7:50 AM, Simon Roberts wrote:
> Does GNC provide any mechanism for comparing two versions of the same set
> of accounts?
> 
> I'll be sending my books to my accountant soon, and I imagine they will
> have some corrections/adjustments. I'll be giving them a laptop with GNC
> installed, so they can most easily browse, and it occurs to me that they
> could also make their changes in place. But, unless they write down
> separately every entry they create or change, I would need to somehow
> re-integrate their work with my "master" file. Either that, or I'd have to
> freeze my bookkeeping while they're working on things, and that's likely to
> take too long to be acceptable.
> 
> With the hostage-taker's rent-ware that I used to use, there was a specific
> mechanism for an "accountant's copy" and a means to merge the changes back
> automatically. But I've failed to find this in the docs for GNC (quite
> possibly as a result of poor / uninspired searching!)
> 
> Is this supported directly? Is this something folks have found an approach
> for? I suppose, as a not quite worst case, I could simply diff the XML file
> itself, but that's going to produce results that will be somewhat messy, at
> best. But at least I'd know something about what changed.
> 
> What ideas can you offer (or manual pages, if I've failed that
> embarrassingly!)