Default account for auto-interest payments

[Derrick Hudson]

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 06:40:34PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>
>> On 14 May 2008 at 9:35, Derek Atkins said:
>>
>>> Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> writes:
>>>
[...]
>>> > Uh, what does "payment" mean, in this context? Because I've already
>>> > reconciled the same account more than once, and each time I had to
>>> > manually select the expense account for the interest bucket, posting the
>>> > resulting entry to the register, with the correct interest expense
>>> > account. The next time I went to reconcile the account, the
>>> > auto-interest dialog still came up with the bad default.
>>>
>>> Sorry, I'm talking about something slightly different.  I'm talking
>>> about the auto-payment feature when you reconcile a CC account.  The
>>> dialog that comes up is the same code as the auto-interest.

This month I finally figured out the pattern.  The dialog works
applying payment when reconciling a liability (credit card) account,
but it reverses the Dr/Cr accounts when applying an interest earned to
an asset (bank) account.

[...]
> 1) Reconcile my savings account
[...]
> You never guess what happens next:
>
> "You cannot transfer from/to the same account"

I've seen this for quite a while now.  Quite simply, the dialog
selects the Asset account for the Credit side, which is backwards, and
doesn't allow you to change it.  Someone suggested entering a negative
amount to compensate producing the correct transaction.

-D

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