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During the final week of the course, you will submit a paper that will be written...

During the final week of the course, you will submit a paper that will be written as if you were making recommendations to a member of Congress. Imagine that the United States Congress was considering sweeping legislation that would provide intensive regulation of nonprofit fundraising, including the imposition of more filing requirements to the Internal Revenue Service for nonprofits, as well as more active obligations on the part of nonprofit leaders to explain in detail their fundraising strategies, marketing, and fundraising efforts. Imagine also that such legislation would provide greater public oversight of the nonprofit fundraising process, but would also burden nonprofits with significant paperwork and accountability requirements. In your paper, discuss your views on whether or not the federal government should play a much larger role in regulating nonprofits and especially how nonprofits identify donors, collect funds, and spend fundraising dollars. Remember that there are only forty states that have state regulations while ten states have no state regulations at all. For example, there was a significant controversy after 9/11 regarding the American Red Cross because they collected fundraising monies and did not use those funds for the victims of 9/11 -- they instead diverted those funds to other projects of the Red Cross. Here are four questions to help frame your discussion. • Do you believe that government has a strong role to play in the regulation of nonprofit fundraising? • Do you think that states should play a role in regulating nonprofit fundraising? • Should there be a Sarbanes-Oxley-type legislation regarding nonprofit fundraising? • If so, what values should guide politicians as they attempt to set up regulatory systems to ensure that nonprofit fundraising is done in an ethical fashion? Would stronger regulation of nonprofits have a chilling effect by decreasing contributions to nonprofits and diminishing the willingness of individuals to create nonprofits to address serious public crises and controversies?

In: Economics

Please make the following modifications to the following code: For each question, instead of keeping score,...

Please make the following modifications to the following code:

  • For each question, instead of keeping score, continue asking the same question until the user guesses the correct question or types "skip" (allow both upper and lower case).
  • If the user guesses correctly, issue a "correct" message,
  • If the user guesses incorrectly, issue a "sorry, try again" message
  • If the user types "skip", print the correct answer and continue to the next question.
  • When all questions have been asked/answered/skipped, ask the user if they would like to play again. If so, start the quiz over again from the beginning. Otherwise, print out a "Thank you for playing" type of message
# A simple program that gives the user a quiz and gives them a score after
#By Abi Santo
#9/27/20
def main():
    print("This Program gives you a quiz and a score after you are done with the quiz")
    quiz_set = [{
        "type" : "single_answer",
        "question" : "What State is Seattle located in?",
        "answer" : "Washington"},
                {
        "type" : "single_answer",
        "question" : "Who is the Speaker of the House?",
        "answer" : "Nancy Pelosi"},
                {
        "type" : "single_answer",
        "question" : "What is the Capital of the United Kingdon?",
        "answer" : "London"},

                {
        "type" : "multiple_choice",
        "question" : "What is the Capital of The United States?",
        "answer" : "c",
        "choices" : "a. New York City \n b. Los Angeles \n c. Washington DC \n d. Chicago"},
                {
        "type" : "multiple_choice",
        "question" : "Who is the President of the United States?",
        "answer" : "a",
        "choices" : "a. Donald Trump \n b. Tim Cook \n c. Barack Obama \n d. Bill Gates"},
                 ]
    score = 0
    for i in range(5):
        print("Question "+str(i+1)+": ")
        print(quiz_set[i]["question"])
        if(quiz_set[i]["type"] == "single_answer"):
            ans = input("Enter Answer ")
            if(ans.lower() == quiz_set[i]["answer"].lower()):
                score +=1
                print("Correct")
            else:
                print("Incorrect")
        elif(quiz_set[i]["type"] == "multiple_choice"):
            print("Options:\n", quiz_set[i]["choices"])
            ans = input("Enter correct choice: ")
            if(ans.lower() == quiz_set[i]["answer"].lower()):
                score +=1
                print("Correct")
            else:
                print("Incorrect")
    if(score >= 0 and score <= 2):
        print("Better luck next time.")
    elif(score >= 3 and score <= 4):
        print("Not bad. Try again soon!")
    else:
        print("You Rock")

    print("Thank you for playing!")
    input("Press the <Enter> key to quit.")

main()

In: Computer Science

Your client is a wealthy investor and property owner. Your client provides you with information (as...

Your client is a wealthy investor and property owner. Your client provides you with information (as detailed below) about various transactions that took place between 1 July 2019 and 30 June 2020.

1) Warehouse: On 30 April 1985 your client acquired a large parcel of vacant land at Rocklea, a suburb in Brisbane with a significant number of commercial buildings. The purchase price was $180,000 and your client incurred $2,000 in legal fees and $18,000 in transfer duty when purchasing the land. In April 2000 your client signed a contract for the construction of a large warehouse on the land. The final construction cost was $1,000,000. The warehouse is used to house your client’s extensive motor vehicle collection. Your client signs the contract to sell the warehouse for $2,200,000 on 1 June 2020. Your client receives the proceeds on 1 July 2020. At the time of sale, an independent valuation revealed the land component of the sale price was $1,200,000. Your client paid $80,000 to insure the warehouse building against flood and fire damage.

2) Boat: Your client owned a luxury motor cruiser that was moored at the Manly Yacht Club. Your client used the boat to go fishing over weekends and to cruise the waters of Moreton Bay. Your client purchased the vessel in late 2006 for $140,000 and sells the vessel on 1 June 2020 to a local boat broker for $90,000. During the period of ownership your client paid a total of $25,000 in weekly mooring fees to the Manly Yacht club and also incurred $20,000 in repairs on the vessel.

3) Dining Table: Your client acquires a large, hand crafted, English oak dining table for $8,000 in April 2001. The table is very old, having been constructed sometime during 1910 and was used by your client and his family in their formal dining room. Your client auctions the table on 2 April 2020 and it sells for a record price of $50,000. Your client pays $2,000 in auction fees. During your client’s period of ownership they paid $3,000 to insure the table against loss or damage.

4) Your client also has a capital loss carried forward from the 2017–2018 income year of $10,000.

You are required to: Calculate which amount(s), if any, must be returned as assessable income for the 2019–2020 income year. Show all your calculations and provide reasons for your answer, referencing relevant sections of the Income Tax Assessment Acts

In: Accounting

Salmon Swim Centre uses a sales journal, purchases journal, cash receipts journal, cash payments journal and...

Salmon Swim Centre uses a sales journal, purchases journal, cash receipts journal, cash payments journal and a general journal. The business also maintains subsidiary ledgers for accounts receivable and accounts payable, in addition to the related control accounts (ignore GST). The relevant account balances as of December 31, 2019, were as follows.

Account No.

Account Title

Account balance

Debit

Credit

100

Cash at Bank

$10,800

120

Accounts Receivable

13,200

140

Inventory

19,000

200

Equipment

250,000

300

Accounts Payable

$11,000

330

Bank Loan

120,000

400

S. Salmon, Capital

162,000

500

Sales

-

510

Sales Returns and Allowances

-

520

Discount Received

-

600

Purchases

-

610

Discount Allowed

-

$293,000

$293,000

The accounts receivable and accounts payable subsidiary ledger balances were as follows.

Accounts Receivable

Accounts Payable

M. Falzon

$2,640

Nelligan Ltd

$2,200

S. H. Guan

1,760

Pellham & Co

2,200

R. Jamal

4,400

Yap United Ltd

6,600

  1. Khalil

3,300

K. Mezzini

1,100

13,200

$11,000

The following transactions occurred during the first quarter of 2020.

Jan 3

S. H. Guan took advantage of the 2% sales discount and paid off her account

11

Sold a $2,000 item to K. Mezzine on account, invoice no. 401

15

Purchased $6,000 of inventory from Pellharm & Co on credit. Terms 2/10, n/30

18

Received $1,200 from M. Falzon on his account. No discount was allowed.

20

Paid $2,200 to Pellham & Co on its previous account balance. No discount was taken.

25

Paid $6,000 owing to Pellham & Co, taking advantage of the 2% discount.

Feb 10

A cash sale of $4,000 was made to a new customer, E. Tsiros.

14

R. Jamal paid $2,200 on his account, outside the discount period.

23

Sold a $1,000 item to K. Mezzini on account, invoice no. 402.

28

Paid $4,400 on the Yap United Ltd account. No discount was received.

Mar 4

Purchased $8,000 in inventory from Nelligan Ltd on credit. Terms n/30.

16

Sold a $100 item to A. Khalil on account, invoice 403

22

Paid $4,400 on the Nelligan Ltd account

27

A $100 sales allowance was given to A. Khalil, due to a defective product.

Required

  1. Enter the first quarter’s transactions in the appropriate journals. Refer to the provided Chart of Accounts for the appropriate account names.
  2. Prepare a trial balance as at March 31, 2020.
  1. Enter the first quarter’s transactions in the appropriate journals.

Purchases Journal

Sales Journal

Cash Receipts Journal

Cash Payments Journal

General Journal

  1. Prepare a trial balance as at March 31, 2020.

Marks: 14

SALMON SWIM CENTRE

Trial Balance

as at March 31, 2020

Account

Account No.

Debit

Credit

In: Accounting

Health Care Spending.  Table 1.3 shows the 2013 per capita total expenditure on health in 35 countries...

Health Care Spending.  Table 1.3 shows the 2013 per capita total expenditure on health in 35 countries with the highest gross domestic product in that year.12 Health expenditure per capita is the sum of public and private health expenditure (in PPP, international $) divided by population. Health expenditures include the provision of health services, family-planning activities, nutrition activities, and emergency aid designated for health but exclude the provision of water and sanitation. Make a stemplot of the data after rounding to the nearest $100 (so that stems are thousands of dollars and leaves are hundreds of dollars). Split the stems, placing leaves 0 to 4 on the first stem and leaves 5 to 9 on the second stem of the same value. Describe the shape, center, and variability of the distribution. Which country is the high outlier?  HEALTH

TABLE 1.3 Per capita total expenditure on health (international dollars)
Country Dollars Country Dollars Country Dollars
Argentina 1725 Indonesia   293 Saudi Arabia 1681
Australia 4191 Iran 1414 South Africa 1121
Austria 4885 Italy 3126 Spain 2846
Belgium 4526 Japan 3741 Sweden 4244
Brazil 1454 Korea, South 2398 Switzerland 6187
Canada 4759 Malaysia   938 Thailand   658
China   646 Mexico 1061 Turkey 1053
Colombia   843 Netherlands 5601 United Arab Emirates 2233
Denmark 4552 Nigeria   207 United Kingdom 3311
France 4334 Norway 6308 United States 9146
Germany 4812 Poland 1551 Venezuela   656
India   215 Russia 1587

I do not understand any of this, or how to round or split the stem chart. Any help is appreciated

In: Statistics and Probability

Country Myanmar Ethiopia Japan India Burkina Faso Kenya China Ghana Nicaragua Guatemala Ecuador Austria Brazil Peru...

Country
Myanmar
Ethiopia
Japan
India
Burkina Faso
Kenya
China
Ghana
Nicaragua
Guatemala
Ecuador
Austria
Brazil
Peru
Colombia
Denmark
Switzerland
Netherlands
Sweden
Belgium
Portugal
Germany
Finland
Algeria
Italy
Iceland
Venezuela, RB
Luxembourg
Norway
Greece
France
Israel
Argentina
Spain
Ireland
Tunisia
Mexico
Malta
Turkey
United Kingdom
Australia
Canada
New Zealand
Lebanon
United Arab Emirates
United States
Obesity %
2.9
3.3
3.5
4.7
5.2
5.9
7.3
10.9
15.5
16.4
18
20.1
20.1
20.4
20.7
21
21
21.9
22
22.1
22.1
22.7
22.8
23.6
23.7
23.9
24.3
24.8
24.8
25.1
25.7
25.8
26.5
26.5
27
27.1
27.6
28.7
29.4
29.8
29.9
30.1
30.6
30.8
34.5
35

In 2016, the World Health Organization estimated that the average obesity rate worldwide was 13%[1]. (This includes all countries of the world, not just the countries in the sample.)

[1] Source: World Health Organization.

  1. Using the sorted data, determine the probability that a randomly selected country from the sample has an obesity rate greater than the worldwide rate. Show your work and round your answer to the nearest thousandth.
  1. Examining the dataset, can you suggest a reason for the high proportion of countries in the dataset having an obesity rate above the worldwide average? State your reason(s) below:
  1. Suppose that fifteen of the countries from the dataset were going to be randomly selected for a study to see if the obesity rates were greater than the worldwide obesity rate. Determine if this group could be treated as a binomial distribution. State each requirement.

In: Statistics and Probability

Assume that an American worker can produce 5 cars per year of 10 tons of grain...

Assume that an American worker can produce 5 cars per year of 10 tons of grain per year, whereas a Japanese worker can produce 15 cars per year or 5 tons of grain per year. Assume labor is the only input used in car and grain production.

a) Which country has the absolute advantage in producing cars? In producing grain? Briefly explain.

b) For the United States, what is the opportunity cost of producing a car? What is the opportunity cost of a ton of grain? Show your work.

c) For Japan, what is the opportunity cost of producing a car? What is the opportunity cost of producing a ton of grain? Show your work.

d) If free trade is allowed, which country will import cars? Which country will import grain? Briefly explain.

In: Economics

1.What effect did the passage of the Social Security Act of 1935 have on the federal...

1.What effect did the passage of the Social Security Act of 1935 have on the federal government's role in health and welfare? What aspects of the original Social Security Act can be seen in present-day social welfare programs?

2.How does the changing shape of the American economy change the shape of American poverty?

3.If you had the power to eradicate poverty in the United States, what is the single most important strategy that you would put in place to do so and why?

4.Identify at least five factors associated with homelessness. Suggest at least one possible intervention strategy for each factor.

5.Why do you think that families with children are the fastest-growing component of the homeless population?  Cite specific examples to support your answer

In: Economics

A.  Assume Charlie lives for two periods and must choose between two options.  Option 1:  Do not attend school...

A.  Assume Charlie lives for two periods and must choose between two options.  Option 1:  Do not attend school at all and work in both periods at a salary of $20,000 per period.  Option 2:  Attend school in the first period incurring $5,000 in direct schooling costs, then in the second period work at a salary of $45,000.  Assume the discount rate between periods is 5 %.  Which option will Charlie choose to pursue?

B.  State whether the below is True or False, then explain your reasoning.

When a worker’s non-labor income increases, the substitution effect on leisure hours is negative, the income effect on leisure hours is positive, and hence the change in hours worked is ambiguous.

C.  Draw the age-earnings profile for a typical worker in the United States. Explain why it is shaped the way it is.

In: Economics

Discuss in an in-depth, personal analysis the causes of the American colonial rebellion against British authority,...

Discuss in an in-depth, personal analysis the causes of the American colonial rebellion against British authority, which ultimately led to independence and the creation of a new country called the United States of America in 1776. From the founding of Jamestown in 1607 through the end of the Seven Years' War (or the French and Indian War as the colonials referred to the conflict) Great Britain practiced the policy of "salutary neglect;" define what that meant and how it benefited the colonies but hurt British policy and control of the colonies. After the English victory in the Seven Years' War, Great Britain could no longer afford such carelessness; why? As a result, England implemented all manner of new policies the colonists found unacceptable, which led to widespread protest, resistance, and violence and finally war with a declaration of independence; why?

In: Economics