Employees at a certain company are paid on Friday, December 28 for the five days ending on December 28. The next payday is Friday, January 4. Employees work 5 days a week. The weekly payroll amounts to $3,150. The appropriate adjusting journal entry on December 31 would be to credit Salaries and Wages Payable for $2,520. $2,160 $1,260. $3,150. $630.

Adams, Inc., pays its employees’ weekly wages in cash. A supplementary payroll sheet that lists the employees’ names and their earnings for a certain week is shown below. Complete the payroll sheet by calculating the total amount of payroll and indicating the least possible number of denominations that can be used in paying each employee. However, no employees are to be given bills in denominations greater than $20

Encore Records has two employees who are paid on the 1st and 15th of each month for the work they performed in the preceding half-month. At February 28, each employee is owed gross pay of $1,000, but each one must have 10% of their pay withheld for income taxes. Each must also make Canada Pension Plan contributions of 5.1% of their gross pay and pay Employment Insurance premiums of 1.62% of their gross pay. Prepare the payroll journal entries required to reflect these amounts, along with Encore's share of CPP contributions and El premiums, in Encore's February 28 financial statements. Prepare the journal entry to record the accrual of the payroll on February 28. (Enter debits first, then credits. Enter explanations on the last line of the journal. Round amounts to the nearest cent.) Date February 28 Salaries Expense Accounts and Explanation Date February 28 Employee Income Tax Payable Employment Insurance Payable Canada Pension Plan Payable Salaries Payable To record payroll costs.…

Alpine Company pays its employees time-and-a-half for hours worked in excess of 40 per week. The information available from time cards and employees’ individual earnings records for the pay period ended October 14 is shown in the following chart:   Earnings at End Daily Time   Income Tax Name of Previous Week M T W T F S Pay Rate Allowances or Amount Bardin, J. 43,627.00 8 8 8 8 8 2 21.30 2 Caris, A. 44,340.00 8 8 8 8 8 8 21.60 1 Drew, W. 43,845.00 8 10 10 8 8 0 21.50 1 Garen, S. 117,600.00 8 8 8 8 8 0 49.00 $227.83 North, O. 43,875.00 8 8 8 8 8 5 21.40 3 Ovid, N. 40,150.00 8 8 8 8 8 0 21.50 1 Ross, J. 6,430.00 8 8 8 8 8 4 20.50 1 Springer, O. 44,175.00 8 8 8 8 8 3 21.25 2   Taxable earnings for Social Security are based on the first $118,500. Taxable earnings for Medicare are based on all earnings. Taxable earnings for federal and state unemployment are based on the first $7,000. *Round to the nearest penny. Required: 1. Complete the payroll register…