Karen Jolly operates a bakery called Karens Cupcakes. She has five employees, all of whom are paid on a weekly basis. Karens Cupcakes uses a payroll register, individual employee earnings records, and a general journal.

Karens Cupcakes uses a weekly federal income tax withholding table like the one in Figure 8-4 in the text. The payroll data for each employee for the week ended February 15, 20--, are given below. Employees are paid 1 times the regular rate for working over 40 hours a week.

No. of

Marital

Total Hours

Total Earnings

Name

Allowances

Status

Worked Feb. 915

Rate

Jan. 1Feb. 8

Barone, William1S40$10.00$2,400.00

Hastings, Gene4M4512.003,360.00

Nitobe, Isako3M468.752,935.00

Smith, Judy2M4211.002,745.00

Tarshis, Dolores1S3910.502,650.75

Social Security tax is withheld from the first $118,500 of earnings at the rate of 6.2%. Medicare tax is withheld at the rate of 1.45%, and city earnings tax at the rate of 1%, both applied to gross pay. Hastings and Smith have $35 withheld and Nitobe and Tarshis have $15 withheld for health insurance. Nitobe and Tarshis have $25 withheld to be invested in the bakers credit union. Hastings has $18.75 withheld and Smith has $43.75 withheld under a savings bond purchase plan.

Karens Cupcakes payroll is met by drawing checks on its regular bank account. The checks were issued in sequence, beginning with No. 365.

Required:

1.Prepare a payroll register for Karens Cupcakes for the week ended February 15, 20--. (In the Taxable Earnings/Unemployment Compensation column, enter the same amounts as in the Social Security column.) Total the amount columns and verify the totals.

2.Assuming that the wages for the week ended February 15 were paid on February 17, prepare the journal entry for the payment of this payroll.

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