I've never seen that. I've always seen the expenses that are a result of company paid liabilities appear on the paycheck date - which is how it should work.

Also, the liabilities will appear on the balance sheet on the same date.

More generally, all activity in all accounts will appear on these cash basis reports on the posting date/the transaction date - except for A/R and A/P transactions. Only A/R and A/P are treated in a special way - where the financial activity is reported - based on the payments applied to the 'source' transactions like Invoices and Bills.

You'll see the same in any of the QuickBooks sample companies.