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Recording and Reporting Compensated Absences
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 $13,200. 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, $1,540,000; Year 2, $1,628,000. There was no carryover of vacation time
earnd 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
a. (1) Dec. 31, Year 1
To record compensated balances.
a. (2) Year 2
To record payment of vacation days.
b. Salaries expense for Year 1 $
Salaries expense for Year 2 $
Balance Sheet, Dec. 31
Year 1
c. Current liabilities
$
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