Rounding in Mortgage Assistant

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Nov 12 10:41:15 EST 2012


gnucash at skewray.com writes:

> I just tried using the Mortgage Assistant in Gnucash 2.4.11.  The mortgage payment
> came out within one cent of what the bank thinks my mortgage payment should be.
> How do I make Gnucash Mortgage Assistant round up instead of down?  If that isn't
> possible, how to I edit the pmt(...) statement to round up?
>
> I would suggest that the mortgage assistant be a little more clear about start and
> end dates.  It isn't clear if the start date is the day the money is borrowed or
> the date of the first payment.

My first guess is that the interest rate you think you're paying isn't
exactly the interest rate the bank is charging you.  For example,
perhaps they are rounding the rate at 3 or 4 digits?

> Brian

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-derek

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