Automatically reconcile interest charges

[David Carlson]

On 2/11/2015 4:49 PM, David Carlson wrote:
> 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

The double entry problem mentioned by Mark a few posts back would be
serious if it still exists.

David C