1. Why did Britain leave the EU? Is there any concern about other countries following the lead of Britain? Has any other country exited the EU after becoming a member?

2. What are the defenses of the EU? Why would European countries want to be part of the E.U. for collective security?

In 2010, the Institute of Medicine released a report entitled The Future of Nursing. In 2020, we are now at the 10th anniversary of its publication. Although you do not have the full report in front of you, the key areas addressed in the report are listed below. For each of the eight areas, give your opinion of whether or not the goal has been fully met, partially met, or not met. Then for goals #1, #2, #6, #7, and either #4 or #5, discuss how you in a role as a staff RN can contribute to the achievement of the goals or to the further advancement of the goal if you believe it has already been met.

Key Areas Addressed:

1. Remove scope-of-practice barriers

2. Expand opportunities for nurses to lead and diffuse collaborative improvement efforts.

3. Implement nurse residency programs.

4. Increase the proportion of nurses with a baccalaureate degree to 80% by 2020.

5. Double the number of nurses with a doctorate by 2020.

6. Ensure that nurses engage in lifelong learning.

7. Prepare and enable nurses to lead changes to advance health

8. Build an infrastructure for the collection and analysis of inter-professional healthcare workforce data.

All postings are to be in complete sentences. You may answer the met/not met with simple sentences - Goal #x is met. Goal #y is not met. as examples. When speaking to the five goals, you must address how you can assist the profession in meeting/improving each goal's response in a full paragraph with at least four sentences.

The following table contains approximate figures for gross domestic product (GDP) and the national debt in the United States for June 2001 and June 2010. The national debt represents the total amount of money owed by the federal government to holders of U.S. securities. All numbers are in trillions of dollars.

Source: “U.S. Treasury, Bureau of Economic Analysis.”

Net public debt is the portion of the national debt that is held outside the federal government and the Federal Reserve System. In June 2001, the net public debt as a percentage of total national debt was __________.

In June 2001, the percentage of the U.S. national debt held by foreigners (external national debt) was ________ .

The fraction of the national debt held by foreigners will eventually need to be repaid to foreigners, thereby reducing the collective purchasing power of Americans. Between 2001 and 2010, the fraction of the national debt held by foreigners __________ .

The absolute level of the debt does not necessarily provide a clear indication of a nation's debt burden. Thus, economists often look at relative measures of the national debt. One possible relative measure of the national debt is the federal debt held by the public (outside the federal government and the Federal Reserve) as a percentage of GDP. In 2001, publicly held debt was _______ of GDP. Between 2001 and 2010, publicly held debt as a percentage of GDP _________ .

On 1 January 2008, a company bought plant at a price of $500 000. The

plant was to be depreciated using the straight line method over its

useful life of 5 years (after which it was estimated that it would have no

residual value).

For tax purposes, wear and tear is allowed on the following basis:

50% in the first year

30% in the second year

20% in the third year

On 31 December 2011 the plant was sold for $100 000. The profit before

tax for 2010 was $120 000 and for 2011 $150 000. The tax rate was

30% from 2008 to 2011.

Required

a) Calculate temporary differences and deferred tax asset/ liability for the

years 2008 to 2011, clearly indicating the debits/credits to the deferred

tax account.

b) Calculate the taxable income and current income for 2010 and 2011

1) Find unemployment rates from 2010-2020 in Canada and present it in a graph.

2) what are the causes of unemployment?

3) Does a high minimum wage result in higher unemployment?

4) Does employment insurance cause unemployment?

3. You have just been hired as the Labour Relations Coordinator at a public sector organization. Today, your manager has just informed you that the next round of collective bargaining with the union begins on September 1st 2020. She has asked you to put together a comprehensive planning document for the CB process. She wants to see all work tasks, work tasks assigned to people (positions), resources needed to complete tasks and time lines. She suggests that you prepare this planning document in a chart/table/schematic format.

You have just been hired as the Labour Relations Coordinator at a public sector organization. Today, your manager has just informed you that the next round of collective bargaining with the union begins on September 1st, 2020. She has asked you to put together a comprehensive planning document for the CB process. She wants to see all work tasks, work tasks assigned to people (positions), resources needed to complete tasks and timelines. She suggests that you prepare this planning document in a chart/table/schematic format.

Scott and Laura are married and will file a joint tax return. Laura has a sole proprietorship (not a “specified services” business) that generates qualified business income of $300,000. The proprietorship pays W–2 wages of $40,000 and holds property with an unadjusted basis of $10,000. Scott is employed by a local school district. Their taxable income before the QBI deduction is $386,600 (this is also their modified taxable income).

1. Determine Scott and Laura’s QBI deduction, taxable income, and tax liability for 2020.
2. After providing you the original information in the problem, Scott finds out that he will be receiving a $6,000 bonus in December 2020 (increasing their taxable income before the QBI deduction by this amount). Redetermine Scott and Laura’s QBI deduction, taxable income, and tax liability for 2020.
3. What is the marginal tax rate on Scott’s bonus?

XYZ Ltd. is a large retail company listed on a major stock exchange, and its reported net income for the year ended December 31, 2019, is $5 million. The earnings were announced to the public on March 31, 2020. Just before the release of the 2019 earnings on March 31, 2020, financial analysts had predicted the company’s net income for 2019 to be $7 million.

Assumptions

■ No other news about XYZ Ltd. was released to the public on March 31, 2020.

■ No significant economy-wide events affecting share prices occurred on March 31, 2020

Consider the two situations below:

i The $2 million deviation of forecasted earnings from actual earnings is completely accounted for by XYZ Ltd.’s having closed down a number of its retail outlets.

ii The $2 million deviation of the forecasted earnings from actual earnings is completely accounted for by a fire in XYZ Ltd.’s largest retail outlet, which had caused

the outlet to be closed temporarily for six months.

A. Which event would likely cause the largest impact on the share price in an efficient market – a loss from a fire disaster that disrupts business for a short period of time, or a similar size loss from closing a large number of stores?

B. Would the market reaction to the fire disaster be positive or negative? Would you expect the market reaction to the store closings to be positive or negative? Defend and explain each answer.

[assume that the market was unaware of the fire disaster or the store closings, as the case might be, prior to the earnings announcement. Thus, when the company reported earnings, it also disclosed for the first time the cause of the earnings shortfall. The assumption means that we have a scenario where the disclosure of the earnings shortfall and the simultaneous disclosure of the reason for the shortfall is both news to the market.]