Problem: Peteresbourgh Medical Devices makes devices and equipment that it sells to hospitals. The organization has a profit sharing plan that is worded as follows: The company will make available a profit sharing pool that will be the lower of the following two items: 1.) 40% of income before taxes in excess of the target profit level, which is 18% of net assets, or 2.) $7 million. The individual employee is paid a share of the profit sharing pool equal to the ratio of that employee's salary to the total salary paid to all employees.
1) If the company earned $45 million of earnings before taxes and had net assets of $100 million, what would be the amount available for distribution from the profit sharing pool?
2) Suppose that Marg Watson's salary was $68,000 and that total salaries paid in the company were $25 million. What would Marg's profit share be?
3) What do you like about this profit sharing plan?
4) What do you dislike about this profit sharing plan?