Setting up mortgage payments

[Derek Atkins]

"David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> writes:

> Dean is right... which is why, in my own personal accounts, I enter the transaction manually after the fact. It's just simpler.

I just update the SX-created transaction with the correct P/I values
after I get my statement from the bank.

> As I understand it from discussions in the past, the problem is that
> there is no "Balance-As-Of-Date" function in Gnucash; without this, it
> is not possible for Gnucash to recalculate interest. There is,
> apparently, a structural challenge that has prevented the addition of
> such a function. At least, that is my understanding.

Yep, that is the issue.  So the P/I amounts cannot be computed on the
fly -- they are computed based on the starting value.

> David

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-derek

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