All of the employees are paid on a weekly basis on Friday. This project will focus on
Question:
- All of the employees are paid on a weekly basis on Friday. This project will focus on payroll for the dates ending 01/15/20 and 01/24/2020. All employees earn 3 hours of vacation each pay period. For all voluntary benefits, there is a 50/50 cost sharing agreement. Please include calculations for Social Security and Medicare regardless if these are put on hold because of the Corona Virus.
1. to open an Excel spreadsheet and create two tabs at the bottom – one for each payroll period.
2. create columns for the employee name, filing status, pay rate, gross pay, mandatory voluntary deductions, vacation, and gross pay. Assume that the employees have no cumulative earnings prior to these payroll periods.
3. decide the pay rate for all employees and the number of hours worked. The number of hours worked must be different between the two payroll periods. In addition, three employees must have overtime in each payroll period.
4. Columns must also be created for hours worked, overtime, and Net Pay.
5. decide the cost of each voluntary benefit for each employee.
6. must include the mandatory withholdings. Use 6.2 percent for Social Security and 1.45 percent for Medicare for each employee.
7. For FUTA, use .08 of the first $7,000 of each employee. For SUTA, use 5.4% of the first $8,500 of each employee.
8. In calculating totals in the worksheet, students must use Excel formulas including SUM, SUMIF, SUMIFS, and Subtraction. A formula should also be included to tie information between two worksheets.
9. must also include conditional formatting with at least two rules applied.
10. should use the formatting features of Excel to give the worksheet a professional appearance.
11. prepare two-word documents showing general journal entries for the employee and employer side, payment of wages, accrual of vacation time, and payment of tax liabilities.
Payroll Accounting 2016
ISBN: 978-1259572197
2nd edition
Authors: Jeanette Landin, Paulette Schirmer