yep ...
I am not offering any formal advice on office politics or anything, I am only recounting past experiences.
In similar situations things have been requested of me in the past. I complied and then spent the next several weeks doing what auditors wanted (because they are, after all, the law) and by golly, they wanted it RIGHT THEN!
I explained that was beyond the scope of the office and proceeded to do it manually. They were miffed at the time it was going to take. Next, I handed them several cases of printed pages they would have to go through (imagine 1k records with 3 tabs each).
So, after the time and the expense I was allowed to a datadump into an Excel spreadsheet.
Ask your boss what you should require and be required to do. That's what bosses are paid for.
-dK