What do you mean by salaries, Accounting Basics

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Q. What do you mean by Salaries?

The recording of the payment of employee salaries typically involves a debit to an expense account and a credit to Cash. But for a company pays salaries on the last day of the accounting period for a pay period ending on that date it must make an adjusting entry to record any salaries incurred but not yet paid.

Micro Train Company paid USD 3600 of salaries on Friday 2010 December 28 to cover the first four weeks of December and the entry made at that time was:

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Suppose that the last day of December 2010 falls on a Monday this expense account doesn't show salaries earned by employees for the last day of the month. Nor does any account illustrate the employer's obligation to pay these salaries. The T-accounts pertaining to salaries emerge as follows before adjustment:

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Prerequisite salaries are USD 3600 for four weeks they are USD 900 per week. Meant for a five-day workweek daily salary is USD 180. Micro Train formulates the following adjusting entry on December 31 to accrue salaries for one day:

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Subsequent to adjustment the two T-accounts involved appear as follows

 

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The debit in the regulating journal entry brings the month's salaries expense up to its correct USD 3780 amount for income statement purposes. The credit to Salaries Payable files the USD 180 salary liability to employees. The balance sheet illustrates salaries payable as a liability. Another instance of a liability/expense adjustment is when a company incurs interest on a note payable. The debit would exist to Interest Expense and the credit would be to Interest Payable.


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