 so just to see what we did last time and compare it to this time let's go to the tab to the right right click on it duplicate it and we're going to go into our reports on the left hand side close up the hand buggy and then scroll on down let's say who owes you money who owes you everybody owes me everybody owes me stuff i'm in the customer balance detail let's do the customer balance detail and then scroll up a bit so last time you end we ended up with these negative amounts because we have a payment that's not applied to an invoice so from a financial statement reporting purpose that's not quite right because we should have a positive liability and not a negative asset account for eric music however when i create a liability account it doesn't tie from a bookkeeping standpoint as nicely to the sub ledger breaking out by customer the accounts receivable is the account that's tied to the customers that's why this works good logistically from a bookkeeping standpoint if not exactly perfect from a financial statement standpoint and we could do adjusting entries at the end of the period month or year in order to to fix this periodically like we do with other adjusting entries if we wanted to however we might say no maybe i i would like to record it in some way where this this doesn't happen i don't get this negative