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Vendor Prepayment creates debit to liability account?

edited Dec 23, 2019 11:01PM in Accounting / ERP 1 comment

When you bill a PO prior to receiving it, it creates a debit to Inventory Received not Billed, a liability account.

Likewise if you write a check to a vendor and then create a vendor credit, you end up with a debit to a liability account.

Then better way to manage this is to create a debit to an asset account for prepayments. After all, if the vendor does not deliver they owe you this money back. It should show up as an asset on the books, not as a debit to a liability?

Can NetSuite please provide their reasoning here?

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