1) Current liabilities include accounts payable, the current portion of long-term debt due within one year, and short-term notes payable.
2) Payroll liabilities include wages and salaries owed to employees, as well as payroll tax liabilities such as Social Security, Medicare, unemployment taxes that are withheld from employee paychecks.
3) Payroll accounting systems use a payroll register to record employee earnings and deductions, employee earnings records to track individual pay, and journal entries to record payroll expenses and related tax liabilities.