Franco Company has 20 employees, each of whom earns $3,000 per month and is paid on the...

Franco Company has 20 employees, each of whom earns $3,000 per month and is paid on the last day

of each month. All 20 have been employed continuously at this amount since January 1. Franco uses a

payroll bank account and special payroll checks to pay its employees. On March 1, the following accounts

and balances exist in its general ledger:

a. FICA—Social Security Taxes Payable, $7,440; FICA—Medicare Taxes Payable, $1,740. (The balances

of these accounts represent total liabilities for both the employer’s and employees’ FICA taxes for

the February payroll only.)

b. Employees’ Federal Income Taxes Payable, $5,250 (liability for February only).

c. Federal Unemployment Taxes Payable, $960 (liability for January and February together).

d. State Unemployment Taxes Payable, $4,800 (liability for January and February together).

During March and April, the company had the following payroll transactions.

Mar. 15 Issued check payable to Swift Bank, a federal depository bank authorized to accept employers’

payments of FICA taxes and employee income tax withholdings. The $14,430 check is in

payment of the February FICA and employee income taxes.

31 Recorded the March payroll and transferred funds from the regular bank account to the payroll bank account. Issued checks payable to each employee in payment of the March payroll. The payroll register shows the following summary totals for the March pay period.

31 Recorded the employer’s payroll taxes resulting from the March payroll. The company has a

merit rating that reduces its state unemployment tax rate to 4.0% of the first $7,000 paid each

employee. The federal rate is 0.8%.

Apr. 15 Issued check to Swift Bank in payment of the March FICA and employee income taxes.

15 Issued check to the State Tax Commission for the January, February, and March state unemployment

taxes. Mailed the check and the first quarter tax return to the Commission.

30 Issued check payable to Swift Bank in payment of the employer’s FUTA taxes for the first

quarter of the year.

30 Mailed Form 941 to the IRS, reporting the FICA taxes and the employees’ federal income tax

withholdings for the first quarter.

Required

Prepare journal entries to record the transactions and events for both March and April.