On january 15, the end of the first biweekly pay period of the year, north company's payroll register showed that its employees earned $28,000 of sales salaries. withholdings from the employees' salaries include : fica social security taxes at the rate of 6.2%,fica medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%,$3,800 of federal income taxes, $678 of medical insurance deductions, and $190 of union dues.

no employee earned more than $7,000 in this first period. prepare the journal entry to record north company's january 15 (employee) payroll expenses and liabilities.

Galwaysc electronics makes two products. model a requires component a and component c. model b requires component b and component c. new versions of both models are released each year with updated versions of all components. all components are sourced overseas, and abc contracts annually for a quantity of each component before seeing that year’s demand. components are only assembled into finished products once demand for each model is known. for the coming year, alwaysc’s purchasing manner has proposed ordering 500,000 units of component a, 630,000 of component b, and 1,000,000 units of component c. her boss has asked why she has recommended purchasing so much of components a and b when alwaysc will not have enough of component c to fully use all of the inventory of a and b. what factors might the purchasing manager cite to explain her recommended order? explain your reasoning.