Default account for auto-interest payments

[Sam Varshavchik]

Andreas Köhler writes:

> Hi,
> 
> Am Samstag, den 10.05.2008, 21:36 -0400 schrieb Joel Thibault (Gnucash):
>> I see the same behavior as Sam.  If I recall correctly, it was working
>> at some point in the past, but it has since reverted to the old
>> behavior of auto-selecting the (same) reconcile account for interest
>> payments.
>> 
>> What is the intended behavior?  "Account I chose last month" would be
>> my preference.
> 
> "Account I chose last time" is something we use at other places as well.
> 
> I rather wonder whether this needs to be a per-account setting and
> written to the data file.  Compared to the automatic credit card
> payments which can be recognized as debits on the CC account, I do not
> know how to reliably do the same for auto-interest payments.
> 
> An alternative would be to have a global gconf setting for the last
> account used for auto-interest payments.

The same reconciliation dialog is used for both asset accounts where you 
earn interest, like bank accounts, and liability accounts where you pay 
interest, like credit card accounts. Having a single global auto-interest 
bucket does not fit -- you'll be essentially booking all interest you earn, 
and all interest you pay on loans, into a single income/expense account?

Furthermore, Gnucash's new file wizard creates for me a chart of accounts 
with four different interest income accounts: "Bond interest", "Checking 
interest", "Other interest" and "Savings interest" accounts. That's what I 
got when I created a new file. All the different interest accounts would 
just sit idle, if you have a single global interest account. Looks to me 
like everything else in the application expects a separate per-account 
auto-interest bucket.

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