Financial Accounting (12th Edition) (What's New in Accounting)
12th Edition
ISBN: 9780134725987
Author: C. William Thomas, Wendy M. Tietz, Walter T. Harrison Jr.
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 8, Problem 8.8S
(Learning Objective 4: Account for accrued payroll) Fitzgerald Company pays its employees every other Friday. December 31, 2017, was a Sunday. On Friday, January 5, 2018, Fitzgerald paid wages of $112,000, which covered the 14-day period from December 20, 2017, through January 2, 2018. Wages were earned evenly across all days, including Saturdays and Sundays. Employee income taxes withheld for this payroll period totaled $15,610, while the FICA tax withheld was $12,600 (Ignore the employer payroll taxes in this exercise.) Prepare the entry to accrue the company’s wages and payroll taxes at December 31, 2017.
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