Ulta Inc. allows each employee to earn 15 paid vacation days each year with full pay. Unused vacation time can be carried over to the next year. If not taken during the next year, unused vacation time is lost. By the end of Year 1, all but 3 of the 30 employees had taken their earned vacation time. The three employees carried over to Year 2 a total of 20 vacation days, which represented Year 1 salary of $8,400. During Year 2, all of these three used their Year 1 vacation carryover; none of them had received a pay rate change from Year 1 until the time they used their carryover. Total cash wages paid: Year 1, $980,000; Year 2, $1,036,000. There was no carryover of vacation time earned in Year 2.

Required

a. Provide the entry for Ulta Inc. to (1) accrue compensated absences on December 31 of Year 1, and (2) make payment of vacation days in Year 2. Disregard payroll taxes.

b. Compute the total amount of salaries expense for Year 1 and for Year 2.

c. How would the vacation time carried over from Year 1 affect the December 31 of Year 1 balance sheet?

Date	Account Name	Dr.	Cr.
a. (1) Dec. 31, Year 1	CashAccounts ReceivableInventoryEquipmentCopyrightAccounts PayableAccrued CompensationDeferred RevenueEstimated Litigation LiabilityInterest PayableSalaries PayableSales Taxes PayableWarranty LiabilityNote PayableDiscount on Note PayableAsset Retirement ObligationSales RevenueGift Card Breakage RevenueWarranty RevenueCost of Goods SoldInterest ExpenseLegal ExpenseSalaries ExpenseWarranty ExpenseGain on Litigation SettlementLoss on Litigation Settlement		Answer
	CashAccounts ReceivableInventoryEquipmentCopyrightAccounts PayableAccrued CompensationDeferred RevenueEstimated Litigation LiabilityInterest PayableSalaries PayableSales Taxes PayableWarranty LiabilityNote PayableDiscount on Note PayableAsset Retirement ObligationSales RevenueGift Card Breakage RevenueWarranty RevenueCost of Goods SoldInterest ExpenseLegal ExpenseSalaries ExpenseWarranty ExpenseGain on Litigation SettlementLoss on Litigation Settlement		Answer
	To record compensated balances.
a. (2) Year 2	CashAccounts ReceivableInventoryEquipmentCopyrightAccounts PayableAccrued CompensationDeferred RevenueEstimated Litigation LiabilityInterest PayableSalaries PayableSales Taxes PayableWarranty LiabilityNote PayableDiscount on Note PayableAsset Retirement ObligationSales RevenueGift Card Breakage RevenueWarranty RevenueCost of Goods SoldInterest ExpenseLegal ExpenseSalaries ExpenseWarranty ExpenseGain on Litigation SettlementLoss on Litigation Settlement		Answer
	CashAccounts ReceivableInventoryEquipmentCopyrightAccounts PayableAccrued CompensationDeferred RevenueEstimated Litigation LiabilityInterest PayableSalaries PayableSales Taxes PayableWarranty LiabilityNote PayableDiscount on Note PayableAsset Retirement ObligationSales RevenueGift Card Breakage RevenueWarranty RevenueCost of Goods SoldInterest ExpenseLegal ExpenseSalaries ExpenseWarranty ExpenseGain on Litigation SettlementLoss on Litigation Settlement		Answer
	To record payment of vacation days.

b.	Salaries expense for Year 1	Answer
	Salaries expense for Year 2	Answer

	Balance Sheet, Dec. 31	Year 1
c.	Current liabilities
	AnswerCashAccounts ReceivableInventoryEquipmentCopyrightAccounts PayableAccrued compensationDeferred RevenueEstimated Litigation LiabilityInterest PayableSalaries PayableSales Taxes PayableWarranty LiabilityNote PayableDiscount on Note PayableAsset Retirement ObligationSales RevenueGift Card Breakage RevenueWarranty RevenueCost of Goods SoldInterest ExpenseLegal ExpenseSalaries expenseWarranty ExpenseGain on Litigation SettlementLoss on Litigation Settlement	Answer