Any thoughts on how to proceed?

> On Jul 13, 2019, at 4:17 PM, Eric Rathhaus (general) <rathhaus_...@yahoo.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Geert -  You’re correct about what happened.  However, I can’t see how to 
> change the offset. The transactions appear as follows in my AR account    
> 
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> 
> The only  place I can see to reduce theis the payment transaction before gnu 
> automatically sends the amount from AR to liabilities.  But I can’t edit that 
> transaction.  Would I just delete it?
> 
>> On Jul 3, 2019, at 10:50 PM, Eric Rathhaus (general) <rathhaus_...@yahoo.com 
>> <mailto:rathhaus_...@yahoo.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks, Adrien for your assistance and patience.  
>> 
>>> On Jul 3, 2019, at 10:35 PM, Adrien Monteleone 
>>> <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net <mailto:adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net>> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Short answer — yes.
>>> 
>>> Slightly longer answer — figure out what caused that to happen, undo it, 
>>> and then redo the payment properly.
>>> 
>>> The reason for doing so rather than just creating a correcting entry is so 
>>> that you learn what went wrong and don’t repeat the same situation in the 
>>> future. (you’d also need to make good notations in the correcting entry so 
>>> that far in the future, you don’t question why it is there)
>>> 
>>> I’d suspect that you chose the liability account as a source account like 
>>> you’d choose some asset account. You don’t need to select an account when 
>>> doing an offset.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Adrien
>>> 
>>>> On Jul 4, 2019, at 12:04 AM, Eric Rathhaus (general) 
>>>> <rathhaus_...@yahoo.com <mailto:rathhaus_...@yahoo.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> So I did assign the credit note to the AR account and then processed two 
>>>> payments by selecting the posted invoices and the credit note all in the 
>>>> AR account.  I didn’t do anything else but somehow the remaining balance 
>>>> of the credit note ended up in a liability account. Should I just move it 
>>>> back to the AR account to keep it simple?  
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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