A company has three employees, each of whom has been employed since January 1, earns $2,850 per month, and is paid on the last day of each month. On March 1, the following accounts and balances appeared in its ledger. a. Employees' Income Taxes Payable, $1,103.30 (liability for February). b. El Payable, $340.63 (liability for February). c. CPP Payable, $759.82 (liability for February). d. Employees' Medical Insurance Payable, $1,660.00 (liability for January and February). During March and April, the company completed the following related to payroll. Mar. 17 Issued cheque #320 payable to the Receiver General for Canada. The cheque was in payment of the February employee income taxes, El, and CPP amounts due. Mar. 31 Prepared a general journal entry to record the March payroll register, which had the following column totals: EI $141.93 Income Taxes $1,103.30 CPP $379.91 Medical Insurance $415.00 Total Deductions $2,040.14 Net Pay $6,509.86 Office Salaries $2,850.00 Shop Salaries $5,700.00 Mar. 31 Recorded the employer's $415.00 liability for its 50% contribution to the medical insurance plan of employees and 6% vacation pay accrued to the employees. Mar. 31 Prepared a general journal entry to record the employer's costs resulting from the March payroll. Apr. 17 Issued cheque #425 payable to the Receiver General for Canada in payment of the March mandatory deductions. Apr. 17 Issued cheque #426 payable to All Canadian Insurance Company in payment of the employee medical insurance premiums for the first quarter. Required: Prepare the entries to record the transactions. (Round your answers to 2 decimal places. Do not round intermediate calculations.)
The Effect Of Prepaid Taxes On Assets And Liabilities
Many businesses estimate tax liability and make payments throughout the year (often quarterly). When a company overestimates its tax liability, this results in the business paying a prepaid tax. Prepaid taxes will be reversed within one year but can result in prepaid assets and liabilities.
Final Accounts
Financial accounting is one of the branches of accounting in which the transactions arising in the business over a particular period are recorded.
Ledger Posting
A ledger is an account that provides information on all the transactions that have taken place during a particular period. It is also known as General Ledger. For example, your bank account statement is a general ledger that gives information about the amount paid/debited or received/ credited from your bank account over some time.
Trial Balance and Final Accounts
In accounting we start with recording transaction with journal entries then we make separate ledger account for each type of transaction. It is very necessary to check and verify that the transaction transferred to ledgers from the journal are accurately recorded or not. Trial balance helps in this. Trial balance helps to check the accuracy of posting the ledger accounts. It helps the accountant to assist in preparing final accounts. It also helps the accountant to check whether all the debits and credits of items are recorded and posted accurately. Like in a balance sheet debit and credit side should be equal, similarly in trial balance debit balance and credit balance should tally.
Adjustment Entries
At the end of every accounting period Adjustment Entries are made in order to adjust the accounts precisely replicate the expenses and revenue of the current period. It is also known as end of period adjustment. It can also be referred as financial reporting that corrects the errors made previously in the accounting period. The basic characteristics of every adjustment entry is that it affects at least one real account and one nominal account.
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