Have they done this?

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These are detailed questions if you are enquiring into the quality standards of the software producer.Most users will prefer to rely on certification standards.

The BASDA (www.basda.org) standard tests for conversion, inverse rates, and triangulation, and have now introduced a second level of certification for the changeover of account balances.

www.ibm.com/espace-pme/fr

www.euro.fee.be

The German national standard "EURO/JAHR 2000" from DIN (Deutsches Institut fuer Normung) explicitly covers a general ledger over a three-year transition scenario and gives tests and results. The certification agency is GPS (Gesellschaft zur Prüfung von Software mbH)

Aquitaine Valley, the agency which certifies compliance with the AFNOR "NF Euro compatibilité" standard in France does not release details of its tests. They state that they have defined test processes covering inspection, sampling, and application-specific functionality, and some features that add some assurance of good process management by the software company .