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  • May 15, 2011, 07:06 AM
    polis
    Health care premium expensing
    I reconcile my bank account at the end of the month and yet, I have already deducted from the employees, their share of their health care premium for which my bank statement will show an auto payment which I do not post until I reconcile at the end of the month.

    Therefore, when I make the pay cheque up, my doctors will be wages expense dr, income tax expense dr, health care premium dr and bank cr. At the end of the month, I will reconcile the bank autopayment as bank cr and health care expense dr. Doesn't that overstate my health care expense? Don't I need to get the employees share of health care premium in a cr column somewhere to negate the excess health care expense? Any chance of getting an answer along with a following list of doctors and crs to visualize with?
  • May 15, 2011, 10:29 AM
    Just Looking


    If I understand you correctly, you deduct health insurance (or a portion of it) from your employees' paychecks. Let's use an example of an employee A who gets the following (simplified to show just the accounts you mention):

    Gross Pay...................$500
    Income Tax................($ 75)
    Health care premium....($ 50)
    Net Pay......................$375

    Just posting the above check only, you would have:

    Wages Expense.............500
    Income Tax Payable.................75
    Health Care Payable.................50
    Cash....................................375

    If you pay a portion of the health care costs, let's assume 50%, the entry would be:

    Health Care Expense.........50
    Healh Care Payable...........50
    Cash....................................100

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