Start out with crediting the original purchase price. Credit improvements if you capitalized these.Go to the Company menu. I'm going to show you a way to record the sale of a financed asset uh in QuickBook so you can record the gain rate record the cash you get. Should I use a Journal entry again and get rid of the asset and diminish my Loan to 0 and only then dispose the Fixed asset? Journalize entries for sale of assets. When we're talking about the gain or loss of the sale of an asset we need to be looking at net book value at the time of the sale. You debit the assets bought at market value, which is now book value. You credit the liability with the remaining balance of the loan. Statement of Values.