Default account for auto-interest payments

[Derek Atkins]

Derrick Hudson <dman at dman13.dyndns.org> writes:

> 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.

Yes.  This has been fixed in trunk in r17149.

> [...]
>> 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.

I haven't tested this particular case, but I suspect this is related.

> -D

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