Accounting export · Getting it out
The P&L,
as a file an accountant will accept.
Bookkeeping export, reports per country, CSV, something to hand a tax adviser — four requests in different words, and all of them the same one: get the figures out of the browser without retyping them.
Measured, not estimated · EU-hosted · Read-only by default
- Built onthe same modelas the screen
- Readdown the pageone line at a time
- Rowslabel and valuenot a wide table
- The file and the screencannot disagreeby construction
| 1 | line | amount | basis |
| 2 | Sales | 7940.00 | orders |
| 3 | Refunds | -167.00 | orders |
| 4 | VAT inside the price | -1429.00 | settings |
| 5 | Cost of goods | -2103.00 | settings |
| 6 | Payment fees | -135.00 | settings |
| 7 | Advertising | -1180.00 | settings |
| 8 | Fixed costs | -405.00 | settings |
| 9 | Net profit | 2521.00 | computed |
Built from the model the dashboard uses, so the file and the screen are the same arithmetic. Each line says whether it was measured, taken from Settings or computed.
01 / The case for it
The figures are in a browser and your accountant is not.
Without it
Bookkeeping export, reports per country, a CSV, something to hand a tax adviser — four requests that are all the same request. Answered by hand, it becomes a second copy of the numbers with its own opportunity to be wrong.
What Profflow does
The same computation, written as a file.
Built from the output the dashboard renders rather than re-derived at the point of the click. An export that works out its own totals is an export that will eventually contradict the product it came from.
02 / Worth understanding
Why the export and the screen cannot disagree
Four requests, one file
A bookkeeping export, a report per country, a CSV and “something to hand my tax adviser” are the same thing asked four ways. One export answers all four rather than four exports disagreeing by a few euros.
The same model, not a second one
The export is generated from the figures the screens are built on. Products that assemble an export separately end up with a file that is nearly right, and nearly right is the worst state for a document somebody files.
Country splits are already there
Because destination VAT is held per order all along, the per-country breakdown an accountant asks for is a grouping rather than a calculation — and it matches the VAT figure on the dashboard to the cent.
03 / What it lets you do
What follows from getting Accounting export right.
One source of truth
The file is built from the same output the screen renders, so the two cannot drift apart.
Read in the right order
Rows of label and value rather than a wide table. A P&L is read down the page, one line at a time.
Measured and estimated marked
The distinction survives the export. A figure that was an estimate on screen does not become a fact in a spreadsheet.
Tax broken out
The tax line and its country split come out with the rest, so a return is prepared from the same numbers as the dashboard.
Products too
Contribution per product exports on the same terms, including which rows used a real cost.
Nothing retyped
The whole point. Every retyped figure is a figure that can be wrong in a way nobody can trace.
04 / What it is built from
Accounting export is assembled
from accounts you already run.
- 01Gross revenue and refunds
- 02Tax accrued
- 03Cost of goods
- 04Payment and platform fees
- 05Advertising
- 06Fixed costs
- One source of truth
- Read in the right order
- Measured and estimated marked
- Tax broken out
05 / How it is worked out
From the account
to the figure on the screen.
- 01TakesThe period’s finished P&L, as the dashboard computed it.
- 02WritesIt down the page in the order an accountant would write it.
- 03MarksWhich lines are measured and which are estimated.
- 04Hands overA CSV that opens anywhere without a conversion step.
[ Asked of the figures ]
Will the file match what I am looking at?
It is the same computation, not a second one. An export that re-derives its own totals is an export that will eventually contradict the product it came from — so this one is assembled from the figures the dashboard renders.
How Profflow reasons06 / How the figure is kept honest
The same four rules,
on every screen.
- Read-only, on every plan
Profflow observes the accounts it is connected to. It does not write an order, a price, a campaign or a payout back to any of them.
- Measured stays measured
A charge read from an account is labelled measured. Anything modelled — a forecast, a projection, a filled gap — is labelled as such on the screen it appears on.
- Every figure opens
Follow any number to the dated rows underneath it. A figure nobody can check is a figure nobody acts on.
- You approve
The product prepares a decision and shows the evidence. Nothing consequential happens until you say so.
About
Accounting export.
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CSV, which opens in every spreadsheet and imports into every bookkeeping tool without a conversion step.
It is the P&L your accountant needs to prepare from, not a filed return. Profflow does not file anything on your behalf.
Yes, and it says they are estimates. Removing them would make the file tidier and the total wrong.
Any period the dashboard can show, including a custom range. The file covers exactly the dates on screen.
See Accounting export on your own figures.
Bookkeeping export, reports per country, CSV, something to hand a tax adviser — four requests in different words, and all of them the same one: get the figures out of the browser without retyping them.