Bank Interest in Wrong Column on Reconcile

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Derrick Hudson <dman at dman13.dyndns.org>:

> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 08:04:23PM -0500, Tommy Trussell wrote:
>
> | About the time I upgraded to 2.0.5, when I reconciled a bank
> | statement, the interest for each statement started going into the
> | "withdrawal" column instead of the "deposit" column, and I have to
> | manually move the amount to reconcile the statement. This is still
> | happening in the current version.
> |
> | I have not seen an obvious way to change the default behavior. When
> | the Interest dialog of the reconcile process comes up, the dialog
> | shows two account selectors, but the selector on the right ("Reconcile
> | Account") stays inactive (greyed out), and if I choose my Interest
> | Income account in the left selector ("Payment From"), it complains
> | that I can't transfer to and from the same account.
>
>
> I have been seeing this for a while (at least a few months) now.  When
> reconciling an account, the dialog that prompts for the interest
> earned transaction reverses the debit and the credit account.

Yeah, I've seen this, too....  Maybe if I can find the time I'll look
into what changed and why the reconcile dialog does it wrong.

> The dialog correctly identifies the other account in the previous
> month's transaction (interest income) but incorrectly selects it as
> the debit account.  The debit account can not be changed in that
> dialog.  For the credit account I must then select the (asset/bank)
> account being reconciled.  Naturally this creates a transaction with
> the debits and credits reversed.  I have been dealing with it by
> editing the created transaction before finishing the reconciliation.

-derek

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