Some clients request the same, or very similar work to something done for them before. On such occasions it's expeditious to duplicate the debt/credit for the previous work and edit it to cover the current job. The duplicate item then appears in the list of debt/credits adjacent to the one from which it was cloned. I can think of no case where the Date and Paid status of an old debt/credit would be needed for a duplicate copy.
Please modify the Duplicate operation for debt/credits to clear the previous date entry (or preferably set it to Today) and clear the Has Been Paid checkbox when the duplicate item is created. That way the newly duplicated item would appear at the bottom of the debt/credit list with a current date and without an X in the Paid column.