When is Accounts receivable credited?

When you decrease your receivables. You take in cash on a loan payment... Cash is debitted. The corresponding action in double entry bookkeeping is to credit receivables. Cash went up, receivables went down by the same amount. When you decrease your receivables. You take in cash on a loan payment... Cash is debitted. The corresponding action in double entry bookkeeping is to credit receivables. Cash went up, receivables went down by the same amount.