Shipping Account Coding

Hello to all:

Have you all come across our situation here? When we create a sales order/invoice for a product, the shipping is automatically calculated and all is fine here except one thing. It appears that the general ledger coding for the shipping account used in sales order is actually an expense account in our chart of accounts when in fact, the account should be a cost of goods sold shipping -out account. I was told that NetSuite, for some reason, will not accept a cost of goods account in your sales order and thus, we were forced to use a shipping expense