An individual is asked in a Compensation & Performance Management class to read the following article: "CEO pay ratio disclosures provide little more than noise for investors" was written by Tomi Kilgore and published on marketmatch.com on May $28,2018.$

Summary of the article: Companies report pay for CEOs and employees differently, leading to potential discrepancies in the calculation and reporting of pay ratios. The Securities and Exchange Commission's pay ratio rule, which required companies to compare CEO compensation with employee compensation, aimed to provide insight into income inequality. However, the disclosures have been "relatively unhelpful" as companies can choose how they evaluate pay. CEO compensation could include estimates of market value of unvested stock options and other benefits, such as security measures for a CEO's residence. Companies with high numbers of temporary or seasonal employees could have higher CEO pay ratios. The lack of standardization makes comparisons difficult, but companies are learning more about median employee pay, which is one of the intended benefits of the pay ratio rule.

D Topic: executive pay and its many complications. We have seen in the news over the last few years, a lot of discussion about CEO Pay Ratio, and a law requiring companies to disclose this figure. There is some data and opinion on this ratio attached.

$-$Please answer the questions below thoroughly and provide some examples to justify the individual$$s way of thinking.

$1)$Does the individual think the CEO Pay Ratio is important?

$2)$Does it tell investors$/$the public anything about the company?

$3)$Please provide some positives, negatives, or both.