Automatically reconcile interest charges

[David Carlson]

On 2/11/2015 3:59 PM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 11 February 2015 at 21:41, Edward Doolittle
> <edward.doolittle at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 11 February 2015 at 15:19, AC <gnucash at acarver.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2015-02-11 07:15, Mark Phillips wrote:
>>>> On the one hand, having the interest charge automatically cleared saves a
>>>> mouse click. On the other hand, I appreciate the concept that there is
>>> only
>>>> one place a transaction can be cleared, and that is the reconciliation
>>>> window. I sometimes have over a hundred transactions in a month to clear
>>> (I
>>>> don't download from the bank, I do it manually from the statement), and I
>>>> have never had an issue finding that interest entry and clearing it with
>>>> one mouse click. Maybe an option in the settings to allow automatic
>>>> clearing of the interest charge?
>>>
>>> I would be perfectly fine with an option to turn this on or off.  The
>>> initial question was to find out if such an option already existed
>>> within the program.
>>>
>> There is no such option that I can see, though I agree it would be
>> appropriate. You might want to request it at
>> http://gnucash.uservoice.com/forums/101223-feature-request . It shouldn't
>> be difficult at all to add this feature.
>>
>> In the meantime you might want to use the account register instead of the
>> dialog box to enter interest charges. In the account register you can mark
>> the interest charge as cleared when you enter the transaction.
> But make sure you don't do this until after starting the reconcile or
> the opening balance won't be right.  In fact I don't know whether the
> reconcile window would be confused by a transaction being entered and
> cleared behind its back, so to speak.  One would have to try it.
>
> Colin
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Clearing a transaction does not affect the opening balance of the
reconciliation window.

David C