Molly Mocha employs one college student every summer in her coffee shop. The student works the five weekdays and is paid on the following Monday. (For example, a student who works Monday through Friday, June 1 through June 5, is paid for that work on Monday, June 8.) The coffee shop makes an adjusting entry each month to show salaries earned but unpaid at month-end. The student works the last week of July, which is Monday, July 28, through Friday, August 1. If the student earns $100 per day, what adjusting entry must the coffee shop make on July 31 to correctly record accrued salaries expense for July?
Molly Mocha employs one college student every summer in her coffee shop. The student works the five weekdays and is paid on the following Monday. (For example, a student who works Monday through Friday, June 1 through June 5, is paid for that work on Monday, June 8.) The coffee shop makes an
Adjusting Entry –
Adjusting Entries are the entries that make the accrual principle work for the organization. These entries make the cash transaction the accrual one. Adjusting entries do not include cash. This also ensures that the transactions incurred in the current accounting period will be recorded in the current period and adjust the prepaid and accrual if any for further periods.
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