During the month of March, Sandhill Co.’s employees earned wages of $68,000. Withholdings related to these wages were $5,202 for FICA, $8,160 for federal income tax, $3,400 for state income tax, and $408 for union dues. The company incurred no cost related to these earnings for federal unemployment tax but incurred $680 for state unemployment tax. Prepare the necessary March 31 journal entry to record salaries and wages expense and salaries and wages payable.

You own a nonunion company with 93 nonexempt employees. all of these employ- ees pack books into boxes for shipment to customers throughout the united states. because of wide differences in performance, you have decided to try performance appraisal, something never done before. until now, you have given every worker the same size increase. now you want to measure performance and reward the best performers with bigger increases. without any further information, which of the five types of appraisal formats do you think would be most appropriate? justify your answer. do you anticipate any complaints, or other comments, from employees after you implement your new system?