I have had this issue for YEARS and it drives me NUTS! I batch enter for a number of clients.  I will be able to enter about one month worth of transactions and then suddenly it stops recalling.  I save the transactions I am at.  Go to preferences, re-check the box to recall account and go back to batch entering and repeat this process countless times.  It is MADDENING.  I have tried the verify and rebuild, and it detects no issues with the file.  This has happened from desktop versions 2011 all the way through 2020.  I am working in 2020 this moment and it happened again.  

WHY? There are no problems detected in the datafile when I verify data.   I have emailed and called support about this I don't know HOW many times because it is NOT working as it should.  I can't find any vendors with prefilled accounts in the Vendor center, and of course I can't find a report that lists this information.  That's HUNDREDS of vendors per client, thousands in all, to search.  I don't have that kind of time.  

Intuit needs to FIX THIS ISSUE.