Automating home mortgage splits?

Dan Rawson drawson1 at earthlink.net
Tue Jun 27 17:29:10 EDT 2017


On 06/27/2017 03:50 PM, Buddha Buck wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 11:46 AM Dan Rawson <drawson1 at earthlink.net 
> <mailto:drawson1 at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>
>     Is it possible to automate the splits associated with a  home mortgage transaction? 
>     I am
>     downloading the checking account transactions as QFX from my bank, so from their
>     point of
>     view, it's a single check.  As an example:
>
>
> This is a perfect example of why downloading checking account transactions from your 
> bank is not necessarily a good idea. As you said, /from their point of view/, it's a 
> single check, whereas /from your point of view/, it's not. Your books should reflect 
> your point of view, not someone else's.
>
> Which is why I endorse the scheduled transactions method suggested by others.
>
On the other hand, manually typing in all the transactions over the course of a month 
doesn't strike me as very efficient :-)


Solved for now - thanks.



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