company has a May 31 fiscal year-end. The company's employees work Monday through Friday (the same number of hours each day), and collectively earn $1,200,000 each week. The company pays its employees each Friday, at the end of the day, for the work completed that week. Prepare the adjusting journal entry needed on May 31, 2022 AND the journa

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A company has a May 31 fiscal year-end. The company's employees work Monday through Friday (the same number of hours each day), and collectively earn $1,200,000 each week. The company pays its employees each Friday, at the end of the day, for the work completed that week. Prepare the adjusting journal entry needed on May 31, 2022 AND the journal entry when the company makes its weekly payment to its employees later that week. 

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