You have a super-nature talent in stock prediction. You want to prove your talent to the entire world. You have predicted the next 10 days’ stock values. Each day after the market is closed, you plan to reveal that day’s prediction, so others can verify whether your prediction is correct or not. Obviously, you need to convince others that you know that day’s stock value beforehand. You don’t want to reveal your prediction before the market is closed, because you don’t want others to benefit from your predictions. At the beginning, you can publish some numbers in a popular newspaper, but you can only afford to publish 64 characters (the size of one hash value) in the newspaper. You reveal your prediction everyday and at the end of 10 days people can authenticate the 10 predications you have revealed over the last 10 days. Given these restrictions, describe the way you will design a system to prove your predictions.

Give an example of radical innovation, and compare it to incremental innovation (how do you know this is radical innovation?). Be original

For the following questions assume: Marginal Abatement Cost is MAC= 12 – E, and Marginal Damages is MD = E/2

Suppose the same polluter is operating under a regulatory environment such that

the polluter always choses ESE (so the regulation updates as polluters innovate). The

firm has the option of undertaking a technological innovation in abatement such

that it would face

MAC = 6 – E/2 after implementation.

9) What is the incentive to innovate (the net private benefit to the polluter of

implementing the innovation: Total Private Cost TPCO(ESEOLD) – TPCN(ESENEW)?

a) -1

b) 0

c) 2

d) 6

e) None of the above

On 1st July 2009 C Ltd acquires a 30% shares in J Ltd for an exchange of cash of $270 000. On acquisition date, the assets of J Ltd are reported at fair value and the total equity is:

Contributing equity $660 000 Retained earnings $240 000

A dividend of $5 000 is paid by J Ltd on 31st October 2009 from profits earned in 2008-09 period (pre-acquisition). For the year ended 30th June 2010, J Ltd records an after tax profit of $50 000 for the year. A further dividend of $20 000 is declared by J Ltd on 30th June 2010 from profits earned in 2009-10 period. On 31st October 2010, J Ltd pays the $20 000 dividend declared on 30th June 2010.

For the year end 30th June 2011, J Ltd records an after-tax loss of $25 000. On 30th June 2011, J Ltd declares dividends of $10 000 to be paid out of the profits earned in the 2010 financial year. On 30th June 2011 J Ltd re-values its land upwards by an amount of $200 000. Tax rate is 33%.

Required:

Prepare the journal entries under the equity method of accounting for C Ltd for the years ending 30th June 2010 and 30th June 2011 to account for its investment in J Ltd assuming that C Ltd is a parent entity which prepares consolidated financial statements.

1. As of January 1, 2020 (before the rapid spread of the Coronavirus) was the United States economy operating in the Keynesian, intermediate, or neoclassical portion of the economy’s Short Run Aggregate Supply Curve? Explain your answer carefully using data and information that you have gathered regarding real GDP, unemployment, the GDP deflator, and inflation. You should discuss the concepts of potential GDP and the natural rate of unemployment to receive full credit.

Analysis and Interpretation of Profitability
Balance sheets and income statements for Nordstrom, Inc. follow. Refer to these financial statements to answer the requirements.

HINT: For Sales use "Total revenues" for your computations, when applicable.

(a) Compute net operating profit after tax (NOPAT) for 2010. Assume that the combined federal and statutory rate is: 37.0%. (Round your answer to the nearest whole number.)

(b) Compute net operating assets (NOA) for 2010 and 2009.

(c) Compute RNOA, net operating profit margin (NOPM), and net operating asset turnover (NOAT) for 2010. Do not use NOPM x NOAT to calculate RNOA. (Do not round until final answers. Round to two decimal places.)

(d) Compute net nonoperating obligations (NNO) for 2010 and 2009.

(e) Compute return on equity (ROE) for 2010. (Round your answers to two decimal places. Do not round until your final answer.)

(f) Infer the nonoperating return component of ROE for 2010. (Use answers from above to calculate. Round your answer to two decimal places.)

Malik is a doctor in the emergency department at Sacramento City Hospital. Malik is unmarried and has an 8-year-old daughter. In 2020, Malik's employer provided Malik with a $5,000 qualified disaster relief payment to help Malik pay for the cost of hiring a nanny when Malik's daughter's school was closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Malik still needed to work during this time, so it was necessary for him to secure alternate child care for his daughter. What amount of the $5,000 qualified disaster relief payment will Malik include in his 2020 gross income?

Numeric Response:

A test of abstract reasoning is given to a sample of students before and after they completed a formal logic course. Assume that two dependent samples have been randomly selected from normally distributed populations. The results are given below. At the 0.05 significance level, use critical value method to test the claim that the mean score is not affected by the course. Does the course improve the students’ skill on abstract reasoning?

     Before 74 83 75 88 84 63 93 84 91 77

     After 73 77 70 77 74 67 95 83 84 75

1. State the requirement
2. State the null and alternative hypotheses with the correct symbols
3. Write all the statistics
4. Write the formula of the test statistic and find the test statistic (you may use a calculator, but you are required to write down the command and all the numbers you enter)
5. Find the critical value or the P-value (you may use a calculator, but you are required to write down the command and all the numbers you enter)
6. Decide to reject or fail to reject H₀ and explain the reason
7. Wording the conclusion
8. Answer the question based on your result above

   Method sandwiched returns true if num is in the element before and after
           an element that is not equal to num

          sandwiched([4,5,4,6,7,3], 4) returns true
          sandwiched([2,1,2], 2) returns true
          sandwiched([3,3,3], 3) returns false
          sandwiched([4,5,6,4], 4) returns false
           sandwiched([1,1,2,3,1,4,1], 1) returns true
          @param nums Integer ArrayList
           @param num integer
          @return true if a single number is between elements equal to num
      */
      public static boolean sandwiched(ArrayList<Integer> nums, int num)
      {
          return false;
      }//end sandwiched