Any Interest in Configurable Imbalance name

[Donald Allen]

On Jan 4, 2008 4:36 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> 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.

I disagree. I think having scheduled transactions be silently entered
imbalanced while not allowing manual transactions to be entered until
balanced makes the user interface inconsistent. I think they should be
handled the same way.

/Don


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