34) Profit-sharing Knight 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. $14 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.

Required

(a) If the company earned $90 million of earnings before taxes and had net assets of $200 million, what would be the amount available for distribution from the profit-sharing pool?

(b) Suppose that Bob Knight's salary was $136,000 and that total salaries paid in the company were $50 million. What would Bob's profit share be?