Saved Help Save & E Chi Refer to the AccuTax Inc. exhibit One of the partners is planning to retire at the end of the year. May Higgins, the sole remaining partner, plans to add a manager at an annual salary of $91,320. She expects the manager to work, on average, 45 hours a week for 45 weeks per year. She plans to change the required staff time for each hour spent to complete a tax return to the following: Complex Simple Business Individual Individual Return Return Return Partner 0.07 hour Manager 0.1 hour 8.13 hour Senior consultant 2.5 hour 0.2 hour Consultant 0.40 hour 0.8 hour @.4 hour 0.40 hour The manager is salaried and earns no overtime pay. Senior consultants are salaried but receive time and a half for any overtime worked. The firm plans to keep all the senior consultants and adjust the number of consultants as needed including employing part- time consultants, who also are paid on an hourly basis. Higgins has also decided to have five supporting staff at $58,500 each. All other operating data remain unchanged. The manager will share 8% of any profit over $610,000 before bonus. Required: 1. What is the budgeted total cost for overtime hours worked by senior consultants? 2. How many full-time consultants should be budgeted? 3. Determine the manager's total compensation and total pretax operating income for the firm, assuming that the revenues from preparing tax returns remain unchanged. Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Required 1 Required 2 Required 3 What is the budgeted total cost for overtime hours worked by senior consultants? Budguted lot or averme Saved Help Save & E Chi Refer to the AccuTax Inc. exhibit One of the partners is planning to retire at the end of the year. May Higgins, the sole remaining partner, plans to add a manager at an annual salary of $91,320. She expects the manager to work, on average, 45 hours a week for 45 weeks per year. She plans to change the required staff time for each hour spent to complete a tax return to the following: Complex Simple Business Individual Individual Return Return Return Partner 0.07 hour Manager 0.1 hour 8.13 hour Senior consultant 2.5 hour 0.2 hour Consultant 0.40 hour 0.8 hour @.4 hour 0.40 hour The manager is salaried and earns no overtime pay. Senior consultants are salaried but receive time and a half for any overtime worked. The firm plans to keep all the senior consultants and adjust the number of consultants as needed including employing part- time consultants, who also are paid on an hourly basis. Higgins has also decided to have five supporting staff at $58,500 each. All other operating data remain unchanged. The manager will share 8% of any profit over $610,000 before bonus. Required: 1. What is the budgeted total cost for overtime hours worked by senior consultants? 2. How many full-time consultants should be budgeted? 3. Determine the manager's total compensation and total pretax operating income for the firm, assuming that the revenues from preparing tax returns remain unchanged. Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Required 1 Required 2 Required 3 What is the budgeted total cost for overtime hours worked by senior consultants? Budguted lot or averme
