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Alder Books Reconciliation: Trial balance out by 1250.00

Trial balance out by 1250.00 for Alder Books Reconciliation. Identical to trial-balance.csv except that account 5200 Services expense is stated as 1923.00 instead of 673.00. Debits therefore come to 14350.00 against credits of 13100.00, a difference of exactly 1250.00. The TOTAL row is recalculated and agrees with the account rows, so the file is internally consistent and only the double-entry rule is broken.

csv

text/csv

462 B
Document Set
accounting
Industry
finance
Source Kit
accounting-reconciliation
Synthetic
true
As Of
2026-09-08
Rows
10

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Specifications

Document Set
accounting
Industry
finance
Source Kit
accounting-reconciliation
Synthetic
true
As Of
2026-09-08
Rows
10
Debit Total
14350.00
Credit Total
13100.00
Difference
1250.00
Offending Account
5200
Intentionally Invalid
true

Testing contract

Expected to fail
Scenario
Load the trial balance and check that total debits equal total credits.
Expected result
Debits 14350.00 exceed credits 13100.00 by exactly 1250.00. The single cause is account 5200, which reports 1923.00 where the general ledger supports 673.00; every other account agrees with general-ledger-export.csv.

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: Trial balance out by 1250.00” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Data import, Error handling. Realistic faker-generated datasets with documented schemas for testing import and ETL flows.

Documented properties for this file: 10 rows. 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("trial-balance-out-of-balance.csv")
print(df.head())
print(df.dtypes)

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