Tracking Discount Earned on Purchased Loans

Q: How can I keep track of the discount earned along with the interest and principal on a loan with your loan servicing software?



A: By way of an example...

Start by clicking "Loan from Template" in the toolbar. Click Mortgage. Enter "Discount Earned" for the account number. Set the dates as you see fit, enter $100,000 for the principal, and 10% for the interest rate. Click the Regular payment. Pick a borrower and a lender and hit finish.



Select the new "Discount Earned" and then click Loan > Lender > Multiple Lenders. Click new and pick a lender. Adjust the percent interest in loan to 100% (complete ownership). Set the price paid to $60,000 and click Save. (So the lender bought a $100,000 balance for $60,000.) Click Done in the Multiple Lenders dialog.



Double-click the loan and click "Save" to record a payment on the loan. Do this a couple more times to add a few payments to the loan.



Once you've created a few payment records, click Reports > Multiple Lenders > Summary of Loans. Hit Preview to see the totals for the "Discount Earned" group (Adjust the date setting if you're doing this in November or December). Note the column Net Principle is less than the principal shown on the regular reports. The rest of the "principal" is listed in the Discount Earned column. If you want to check it, you can see that the ratio of Discount earned to Principal is the expected 40%/60% since the lender got a discount of 40% when purchasing the loan.



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Josh Whitman