Adjusting Entry Wages Payable 7

Hello, in this lecture, we’re going to record the adjusting entry related to payroll, we’re going to record the journal entry up here on the left hand side and post that post that to the trial balance over on the right hand side trial balance in terms of assets and liabilities, then equity and the income statement, including revenue and expenses, all blue accounts, including the income statement being part of equity, we’re first going to go through and see if we can find the accounts that will be related to a payroll adjusting entry. And then we’ll go explain why we are going through this process. So just if we have the trial balance, and we know it’s an adjusting entry related to payroll, we know that there’s going to be at least two accounts affected. And we know that because it’s an adjusting entry, it will be as of the end of the time period. In this case, let’s say it’s the end of the year 1231.

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