In December 2014, Sydney Inc (Sydney) had the following transactions and events related to their employees.Prepare the journal entries for each event.
A) The total payroll for the month, $175,000, was paid on the last working day of the year, December 30.The company withheld the following amounts from the employee paycheques: $5,250 for Canada Pension Plan (CPP), $2,600 for Employment Insurance (EI), $35,000 for income taxes.Sydney remits the withholdings on the tenth day of the following month.
B) Sydney has a defined-benefit pension plan for its senior executives.The estimated pension expense for the year was calculated in December at $32,000.The company made their required contribution of $12,500 on December 12.
C) Sydney has a defined contribution pension plan for all other full-time employees.Sydney contributes three percent of an employee's gross salary into the plan every month.Employees can make additional voluntary contributions.The portion of December's payroll applicable to full-time employees was $122,500.Contributions are made the last day of the month.
D) Salesmen are paid a bonus commission of five percent of sales above their annual sales targets.Sales above target for 2014 were estimated to be $1,600,000.The payments are made January 31 after the year-end sales numbers have been confirmed.
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