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Full dossier (ZIP archive)

Generate the complete archive of a fiscal year in one click, understand its folder structure and verify its integrity with the manifest.

Updated on 10/05/2026 Edit this page

The full dossier is a self-contained ZIP archive that brings together all the books, statements, data and vouchers of a fiscal year. It is designed to be handed to the client, the auditor or the authorities, and to serve as the medium for statutory retention.

Generating the archive

  1. Open the Exports tab and select the fiscal year.
  2. In the Complete accounting file block, click Download the file (ZIP).
  3. The message "Preparing the file…" is displayed during generation. For a large fiscal year, allow a few tens of seconds.
  4. Save the file. Its name includes the company file and the fiscal year.
Note

Generation is limited to 10 requests per minute. It requires a connection and is not available offline.

Content of the archive

Item Content
00-Dossier-comptable.pdf Cover PDF: identity of the company file, table of files with their fingerprints, integrity statement
01-Livres/ Journal book, purchases, sales, financial and miscellaneous operations journals, general ledger, chart of accounts, audit trail
02-Etats-financiers/ Trial balance, balance by period, balance sheet and income statement, annual accounts
03-TVA/ Summary by grid, customer listing, intra-Community listing, one return per period
04-Tiers/ Third-party file, customer and supplier balances, aged balances, third-party history
05-Immobilisations/ Schedule of fixed assets and depreciation
06-Donnees-CSV/ The same statements in CSV format
07-Banque-CODA/ The original CODA statements
08-Pieces/ List of vouchers as PDF, index.csv and the voucher files stored by NovaFisko
manifest.json Fiscal year, closing status, author and date of generation, SHA-256 fingerprint and size of each file, result of the checks

The PDFs of the archive are issued in the language of the company file.

The cover PDF

The first file summarises the archive and attests to its state at the time of generation. Its integrity statement covers:

  • the continuous numbering of vouchers in each journal;
  • the balance of each journal (debit equal to credit);
  • the number of locked periods out of the total;
  • whether or not the fiscal year is closed;
  • the consistency of the entry dates;
  • the integrity check of the whole file, with the number of entries and the debit and credit totals.

A statement that could not be produced is reported in the cover PDF and in the manifest. This is the case, for example, of the annual accounts for a company file whose country pack has no model.

Provisional or final

You can generate the archive at any time, including during the fiscal year for an interim statement. As long as the fiscal year is not closed, the documents carry the notice Provisional document. For the archive intended for statutory retention, generate it after the year end: the documents are then final.

Tip

Generate a first archive before closing for review, then the final archive right after. If the data has not changed between the two, the statement fingerprints are identical: only the status differs.

Supporting documents

The 08-Pieces folder contains the original files when they are stored by NovaFisko, that is the documents dropped into the importer. For vouchers that reside in Novadesko, the archive provides an index with the links to the files, without copying them.

Warning

If your vouchers come from Novadesko, the NovaFisko archive alone is not sufficient for the retention of supporting documents. Make sure you also keep the originals at the source.

Verifying an archive

An archive you receive can be checked without NovaFisko.

  1. Unzip the ZIP file.
  2. Calculate the SHA-256 fingerprint of each file with a standard tool of the system.
  3. Compare each value with the one recorded in manifest.json.

If a single fingerprint differs, the file has been modified after generation. The detailed procedure and the commands are given on the Fingerprints page.

Retention

NovaFisko produces the archive; it does not keep it for you on an archiving medium. Retention for the statutory period on a durable medium is the responsibility of the company and the firm. A good practice is to place the final archive in your archiving system and to record the fingerprint of the manifest.json file.

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