[GNC] When reconciling an account, the proper interest account should come up

D sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 8 04:28:16 EDT 2019


David, 

Paul's description is accurate, so your expectation would not be met. The dialog defaults to creating a circular transaction. Paul's remedy is the same as my own.

David T.

On October 8, 2019, at 7:18 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com> wrote:

I have not used that interest feature in the reconcile dialog, but I would
expect it to choose an income account and automatically deliver the
currency to the the bank (asset) account being reconciled.  Am I wrong?

David Carlson

On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 7:14 PM Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 08:57:00 +1000
> David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 at 08:34, Paul Kinzelman <paul at kinzelman.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I've asked this a couple of times over the last year but never got
> > > an answer to
> > > it, but I've stumbled over the answer, so for others who might be
> > > having problems with it, this is how it works. I think it's a bug
> > > that ought to be fixed sometime, but at least I can get it to work.
> > >
> > > The issue is when I'm reconciling a savings account, the interest
> > > screen pops
> > > up for me to enter the interest, but the account for entering the
> > > interest (the left window at the bottom) is the same as the account
> > > I'm reconciling which is obviously not correct.
> > >
> > >
> > Why is it not correct for you? Every savings account I've ever had
> > has had the interest credited back to the savings account so I would
> > want this behaviour :-)..
> >
> > Cheers Dave H.
> >
>
> If it's not what you want, you might be happier turning off the
> interest dialogue and entering it as any other transaction.
>
> I do have some term deposit accounts which pay interest into a savings
> account, so I am aware of such an option.
>
> Liz
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