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Alder Books Reconciliation: General ledger with parenthesised credits and grouped thousands

General ledger with parenthesised credits and grouped thousands for Alder Books Reconciliation. The same 66 lines collapsed into one signed_amount column in accounting presentation: credits appear as (1,234.50) rather than -1234.50 and thousands carry comma separators. The first credit line reads (5,000.00). Summing the column requires stripping the separators and reading the parentheses as a negative sign.

csv

text/csv

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Document Set
accounting
Industry
finance
Source Kit
accounting-reconciliation
Synthetic
true
As Of
2026-09-08
Rows
66

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Specifications

Document Set
accounting
Industry
finance
Source Kit
accounting-reconciliation
Synthetic
true
As Of
2026-09-08
Rows
66
Negative Style
parentheses
Thousands Separator
comma
Encoding
UTF-8

Testing contract

Expected to pass
Scenario
Parse signed_amount as a number and sum it.
Expected result
A naive numeric parse fails on every parenthesised value and on every comma separator; a correct parse reads 66 signed amounts that sum to 0.00, because the ledger balances.

What is a .csv file?

CSV (Comma-Separated Values) is a plain-text tabular format where rows are lines and fields are separated by commas, with quoting rules for values that contain delimiters, quotes, or newlines. It has no formal type system and depends on encoding and dialect conventions. It is the most portable format for tabular data exchange.

How to use this file

Use an example CSV to test parsers against quoting and embedded-delimiter edge cases, header handling, encoding detection, and import pipelines into databases or spreadsheets.

How to use this file for testing

“Alder Books Reconciliation: General ledger with parenthesised credits and grouped thousands” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Data import. Realistic faker-generated datasets with documented schemas for testing import and ETL flows.

Documented properties for this file: 66 rows · UTF-8. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.

Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such, expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.

Data fixtures document their exact quirks (delimiters, encodings, null handling, schema, and row counts) in the spec table. Point your parser or importer at the file and assert it handles the documented edge cases; clean and deliberately-messy siblings make before/after diffs straightforward.

Code examples

import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_csv("general-ledger-parentheses-negatives.csv")
print(df.head())
print(df.dtypes)

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