Automatically reconcile interest charges

[Edward Doolittle]

Since the information about the interest came from the bank rather than
from the user, it makes sense to mark it as cleared (but not as reconciled
until the reconciliation process is complete).

That said, I personally have never had any trouble finding the interest
transaction during the reconciliation process. Interest is typically
charged at the end of the statement period so it will show up near the end
of the clearing items during the reconciliation process. I just look for
interest charges last, after I've cleared everything else.

I sometimes think that I should be trying harder to verify the bank's
calculation of interest. In some cases it's easy but in other cases not so
much. I usually just ballpark it in my head and hit enter when my mental
calculation inevitably agrees (within a healthy margin of error) with the
bank's calculation.


On 10 February 2015 at 22:12, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 2/10/2015 6:35 PM, AC wrote:
> > Is there a way to automatically mark an interest charge entry as
> > reconciled?  When I start the reconcile process on some accounts, I have
> > GC configured to bring up the Interest Charge dialog so I can enter that
> > value just before starting the reconcile process.  It would be great to
> > have that automatically reconciled (or at least just marked cleared
> > until I click "Finish") so I don't have to hunt for it in the list.
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> A silly question: Are you that confident that there are no bogus charges
> in your account that you are not even searching the list anyway?
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Edward Doolittle
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