Any Interest in Configurable Imbalance name

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com>:

> I do have a question for the developers about this: I have a scheduled
> transaction that records my mortgage payment every month. Gnucash
> computes the principal and interest for each payment, and sometimes
> sometimes round-off error causes a $.01 imbalance. This needs to be
> addressed before returning to the 1.8.x strict-transaction-balancing
> regimem. I would advocate either seeing to it that amortization
> schedules be computed so that principal+interest=payment, by making
> some (optionable?) default choice about what to do when round-off
> error makes this not true, or ask the user where to put the penny, so
> things balance (much same way it asks you whether to recalculate
> number of shares, price, or value when something about a stock
> transaction changes).

This is one case where I think it's appropriate to add the Imbalance-USD
account.

> /Don

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-derek

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