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Appendix
Payroll Accounting
Study Objectives
1. Discuss the objectives of internal control for payroll. 2. Compute and record the payroll for a pay period. 3. Describe and record employer payroll taxes.
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Payroll Accounting
While the mechanics of payroll accounting are the same around the world, the particular accounts
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Payroll Accounting
The term payroll pertains to both:
Salaries - managerial, administrative, and sales personnel (monthly or yearly rate). Wages - store clerks, factory employees, and manual laborers (rate per hour).
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Fictitious employees
being added to payroll.
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Payroll calculation
errors and inappropriate amounts
being paid to an
employee.
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not worked.
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Voluntary:
Charity
Retirement
Union dues Health and life insurance
Pension plans
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(6.2% Social Security plus 1.45% Medicare) on the first $106,800 of gross earnings for each employee.
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115.00
11,462.50
Cash
11,462.50
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(6.2% Social Security plus 1.45% Medicare) on the first $106,800 of gross earnings for each employee.
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unemployment tax on a timely basis will receive an offset credit of up to 5.4%. Therefore, the net federal tax rate is generally 0.8%.
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Question
Employer payroll taxes do not include:
a. Federal unemployment taxes. b. State unemployment taxes.
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Copyright
Copyright 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.
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