Scheduled Transactions Question
David T.
sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 31 15:32:08 EDT 2011
Thanks Derek. Yes, I did have balanced entries. That was the confusion. At least you corroborate that it is confused. Is there any logic to the weirdness that can be noted in the documentation?
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From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
To: David T. <sunfish62 at yahoo.com>
Cc: Users Gnucash <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 8:24 AM
Subject: Re: Scheduled Transactions Question
"David T." <sunfish62 at yahoo.com> writes:
> I have a scheduled transaction for my mortgage that uses formulae to
> calculate the amounts of the principle and interest on the
> payment. However, in addition to this, my bank charges a $1
> transaction fee for automatically making the payment. Every time I try
> to add this payment amount to the scheduled transaction, however,
> Gnucash tells me: "The Scheduled Transaction Editor cannot
> automatically balance this transaction. Should it still be entered?" I
> do not know what to answer to this question, and so I always say No.
Are you sure you added 1 to both the debits and credits? If so, just
say Yes. GnuCash's validation algorithms are.... weird. And it often
can't validate correct formulae.
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