Perplexedx2

GOT IT: Created a CLEARING ACCOUNT in Assets, same principle as Petty Cash. It allows direct entry from A/P and A/R windows for existing payables/receivables which can later be cleared out through shareholder loan.

I started Express Accounts and the beginning of a new fiscal year. I had an accounts payable that was expensed last year and it was set up with an opening balance. This is paid by a personal credit card and normally I would post that payment to my shareholders loan account (liability) and expense it to the right expense account in the General Journal.. I can see no method of posting this payment through A/P in order to decrease the opening balance. I've tried adding another deposit account in the the A/P entry window but I cannot add any account other than an asset account. I can do a journal entry by crediting Shareholders and debiting A/P account but that doesn't change the opening balance of the supplier. I can zero out the opening balance of supplier but that affects A/P. The main problem is that I can't expense it again as it was expensed last year. Anyone have a solution that I'm not seeing? Many thanks.