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  Discussion Questions and Brief Exercises
   1.      
 
a. Journal entry:
 
     Long-Term Note Payable 85,0000     
            Current Portion of Long-Term Debt   85,000  
  Balance sheet:
 
     Current liabilities       $85,000   
            Current portion of long-term debt      
     Long-term liabilities       
           Long-term note payable less $85,000 current portion of long-term debt  315,000   
b.  
  1. Assets received but not yet paid for: purchase supplies on account.
  2. Accrued expense: interest payable
  3. Advance payment from customer: unearned revenue
  4. Loans payable within a year: two examples—a six-month loan, or the current portion of
    long-term debt
2.    $100. Anne-Marie has 4 exemptions and the $1,600 is in the bracket of at least $1,600 but less
than $1,620.
3.    An employee is an individual who performs services for a business when the business controls
(1) what will be done and (2) how it will be done. An independent contractor is an individual
who is in business to offer services to the public and who is in full control of the way in which
the services are performed.
4.    Form W-2 is an annual document from an employer that reports an employee’s gross pay,
taxable gross pay, and withholding items for a calendar year. (Other items may also be reported
on the W-2 such as employer reimbursements and retirement plan contributions.) Form W-4 is
used by the employer to determine employee filing status (married, single, etc.) and the number
of withholding allowances claimed by the employee. A W-4 is submitted by an individual at the
time that individual is hired as an employee.
5.    An employee earnings record is a legally required record of an employee’s gross pay, withholding,
and net pay that must be maintained by an employer for each employee. The earnings record is
necessary because it shows for each employee the gross wages, withholding, and net pay for each
pay period, as well as the year-to-date cumulative amount. The primary use of the employee
earnings record is as the source of the information that is entered on form W-2. The cumulative
information is also useful for indicating when wage base limits are reached.
6.    FICA is an acronym that stands for Federal Insurance Contribution Act. This is the law that
created the Social Security system. FICA imposes a tax that consists of two parts. The first part
is OASDI (Old Age and Survivor’s Disability Insurance). The second part is Medicare, added in
1965, which provides a minimum level of medical insurance coverage. OASDI tax is calculated
as a percentage of gross wages up to maximum gross wage amount, referred to as the wage base.
The Medicare tax is a percentage of all gross wages. In this text, we use 7.65% on a wage base of
$94,000 for OASDI and 1.45% on all wages for Medicare. FICA is paid by employees, and then
an equal amount is matched by the employer.
 
Learning Goal 29, continued
SOLUTIONS
  S2
Section V · Analysis of Key Accounts
 
 

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