[gaius]

Profit in this context is whatever your accountant says it is. You can easily shuffle expenses backwards and forwards between quarters if you want to tweak the figures slightly (so, for example, your profit for this quarter is 99.9% of what it would need to be to pay bonuses). Cynical, moi?

[wlievens]

Yes, but if this information is public, in a small corporation, it'll probably mean a riot and a significant motivation killer.