[Kmymoney-devel] problem calculating 0% (no interest) loans? (KMM 0.9.3)

[Alvaro Soliverez]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Jack <ostroffjh at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On 2009.06.25 01:47, Thomas Baumgart wrote:
>> On Wednesday 24 June 2009 23:14:43 Jack wrote:
>> > On 2009.06.24 16:53, Thomas Baumgart wrote:
>> > > On Wednesday 24 June 2009 19:07:44 Jack wrote:
>> > > > In the loan setup wizard, it refuses to use a 0% interest rate.
>
>>>> Using 0.00001% made it calculate the right values, but is there any
>>>> reason it should not handle an principle only loan?
>
>>>> You could easily use a regular liability account to achive the same
>>>> thing.
>
>>> True.  How about a low-priority request to change the error message
>>> in this case to a specific one that non interest loans should be
>>> handled by a regular liability account instead of a loan account.
>>> The current message about entries not matching is misleading.  This
>>> could even pop up immediately when focus leaves the interest rate
>>> field before any calculation is attempted.
>
>> True. We're currently in a string freeze period for the project, so
>> this has to wait a bit.
>
> This was originally from the sourceforge list last year.  I just tried
> again, and the behavior is a bit different from what I remember, but
> could still use some attention, although it may still be lower priority
> than other things to be done before release.
>
> First, if I enter a 0% interest, I still get the same error that the
> numbers don't match.  However, if I leave the interest rate missing,
> then KMM does calculate a 0% interest.  Further on this, the calculate
> button only becomes enabled if I fill in a payment amount.  Both the
> interest and number of periods default to 0, but I can blank out the
> interest but not the number of payments.  If I let KMM calculate the 0
> interest, and then change something else to the same value (to
> re-enable the calculate button) hitting calculate gives the same error
> again.
>
> With a 0% interest rate, it still requires me to set a category for
> interest payments.  I suppose it's reasonable, since the interest rate
> might change in the future, but it seems unnecessary.
>
> My original suggestion was just to change the "calculate" error for a
> 0% interest rate, which still makes sense, although it's odd that KMM
> will actually calculate a 0% interest rate.
>
Hello Jack,
did you try the latest patch from Fernando on Reviewboard. That's
going into SVN in the next few days and it will most likely modify
things a bit.

Regards,
Alvaro

PS. I promise to download the patch and test it today or tomorrow.