Bug in interest calculation

Andreas Köhler andi5.py at gmx.net
Tue Jan 22 18:41:06 EST 2008


Hi Bo,

On Mi, 2008-01-16 at 09:25 -0600, Bo Najdrovsky wrote:
> It's been a long time since I've posted anything to the list, but I 
> think I discovered a new bug, which as introduced within the past year, 
> so I thought I'd rejoin the list.  It appears that the ipmt() and ppmt() 
> functions no longer function properly in scheduled transactions.  I have 
> a couple of loans that are set up in my scheduled transactions, and up 
> until September of last year, everything was working fine.  Then 
> suddenly, beginning with the September payments, the interest and 
> principal have been remaining the same for every month since then, 
> instead of what should be happening, which of course is that the 
> principal value should be growing while the interest value is dropping. 
> I suspect that this issue coincided with a GnuCash package upgrade to my 
> current version. Sorry if this is already a known issue, I searched the 
> list archives to see if anyone has already reported this and didn't find 
> anything.
> 
> I'm running the standard Fedora 7  build of GnuCash 2.2.1, which comes 
> with this particular distribution.  I don't recall what version of 
> GnuCash was on my system prior to September, but I'd guess it was 
> perhaps the 2.0 series? Anyway, my principal and interest balances are 
> now quite a bit off from what they should be, so I thought I'd try to 
> report the issue.

please enter a bug at

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=GnuCash

so that this will not get lost.

Thanks,
-- andi5




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