What is meant by Salaries Outstanding Accounts?

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What is meant by Salaries Outstanding Accounts?..

Answer / a.r. kalpana

Salaries Outstanding accounts are a personal a\c.

If a business is not able to pay salary for the last two
months to all the workers or some of them the workers will
be treated as the creditors of the business(since they have
given the services but in exchange they have not been paid
for). The amount due to these employees will be added and
put under one common title "Salaries Outstanding account".

Thus the salary outstanding account is a personnal account
representing the employees.

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What is meant by Salaries Outstanding Accounts?..

Answer / gayathri

Salaries Outstanding Account refers salaries which are
already due but not paid.

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What is meant by Salaries Outstanding Accounts?..

Answer / ma10kumar

"Outstanding" means "due for payment but not paid yet".
Thus, Salaries outstanding accounts represent the amount of
salary that the organization has to pay its employees,
which has not paid to them yet or which the employees has
not collected yet.

Here, the term due represents the account closing period.
For example, if an organization is paying salaries only on
4th of the following month and closing its books monthly,
then as on the last business day of every month, all the
salary for the particular month should be booked as
outstanding salary to disclose the accurate profit for the
month and the correct financial position of the company.

From Accounting perspective, while booking outstanding
salaries, we should be debiting "Employees' Salary Account"
and credit "Salaries Outstanding Account" (since we have
not paid it yet). At the time of actual payment of Salary,
we will reverse salary outstanding by debiting it and
crediting "Cash / Bank Account".

- Ma10kumar, Chennai

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What is meant by Salaries Outstanding Accounts?..

Answer / shivani jain

salaries outstanding a/c is a representative personal a/c.
The rule for this a/c according to traditional approach is
debit the debtor and credit the creditor.Salary outstanding
a/c represents those to whom the firm has to pay therefore
it is the liability of the firm.Now as per the modern
approach salary outstanding a/c will be credited since its a
liability and also they are creditors of the firm so the a/c
will be credited as per the traditional approach

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What is meant by Salaries Outstanding Accounts?..

Answer / sandy

Answer 1 (Kalpana) and 6 (Ma10kumar) is perfect.
But accounting perspective should be slightly different.
The actual accounting works as below;
1) Salary account (Expenses a/c) Dr
To O/S Salary a/c (Represents group of emply) Cr
Impact:
Salary expense, P/l account reduce the profit
O/S Salary B/S item (Increases Liability)

Laibility Asset

Profit (-)
O/S Sal (+)
Total Balanced Balanced

2) O/S Salary a/c Dr
To Mr.X (The employ who should ve received) Cr
Impact:
O/S Salary B/S item (Reduce Liability)
Mr. X, represents Accounts payable
Laibility Asset

O/S Sal (-)
Accounts Payable (+)
Total Balanced Balanced

3) Mr.X Dr
To Cash/Bank a/c Cr
Impact:
Mr. X, represents Accounts payable
Cash B/S account (Reduces)

Laibility Asset

Accounts Payable (-) Cash (-)
Total Balanced Balanced

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What is meant by Salaries Outstanding Accounts?..

Answer / jagan

Salary outstanding account means: salay yet to pay ( for
this we rendered services already.

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What is meant by Salaries Outstanding Accounts?..

Answer / tapas ch sarkar

salaries outstanding a/c is a representative personal a/c.
The rule for this a/c according to traditional approach is
debit the debtor and credit the creditor.

Expenses (Salary A/c) Dr.
To, Outstanding / Payable Cr.

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What is meant by Salaries Outstanding Accounts?..

Answer / muri

end of the month: (Yet to pay)

Salary Account---------dr
to Salary payable a/c

When pay the salaries

salary payablr a/c----------dr
to bank A/c.

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What is meant by Salaries Outstanding Accounts?..

Answer / ankur

o/s salary means a salary which is not given yet but has to
be given . This is a libility for the company which is not
paid a salary. this is a DR item which is add with salary
entry in p&l a/c . as well as go into current libility in
companies b/s

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What is meant by Salaries Outstanding Accounts?..

Answer / norbu tshering

it is payment due but yet to pay. it represent the persomal
account.

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