Bank Interest in Wrong Column on Reconcile

[Tommy Trussell]

Sorry to resurrect an old thread AND top-post, too, but I just
reconciled an account for six months worth of statements and the
interest deposit behavior was very odd and inconsistent. I'm still
running 2.2.1, so if any of this has been touched in the last couple
of releases I'll push to get 2.2.3 backported to my version of Ubuntu.
(7.10)

Most of the time, the interest payment went into the wrong column (as
I described in the old thread below), but on about every third
reconcile, the reconcile dialog complained again, saying I couldn't
transfer to and from the same account, and when it was complaining, it
wouldn't let me choose the bank account, but made me choose the
Interest income account. On the NEXT reconcile it did the opposite --
told me I couldn't transfer to-and-from the same account and I had to
choose the bank account again.

THEN when I was finished reconciling all those statements I had lots
of spurious Inbalance-USD transactions (that should have been in the
Interest income account) and of course those transaction splits
refused to go away (I had reconciled them after all).  After I copied
the interest amount into the proper accounts, ultimately I changed the
Inbalance accounts to the "unspecified" account.

Again, if this has been touched in the latest release I'll try to
upgrade soon. I have another account I'm way behind on...


On 11/8/07, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> 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