The Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) tax helps provide which of the
following benefits?

A. Medicare and national defense

B. Medicare and natural disaster relief

C. Medicare and Social Security

D. Medicare and the federal court system

Identifying transactions national park tours co. is a travel agency. the nine transactions recorded by national park tours during may 2019, its first month of operations, are indicated in the following t accounts: cash (1) 75,000 (2) 900 (7) 8,150 (3) 1,600 (4) 6,280 (6) 2,700 (9) 2,500 accounts receivable (5) 12,300 (7) 8,150 supplies (2) 900 (8) 660 equipment (3) 8,000 accounts payable (6) 2,700 (3) 6,400 beth worley, capital (1) 75,000 beth worley, drawing (9) 2,500 fees earned (5) 12,300 operating expenses (4) 6,280 (8) 660 indicate for each debit and each credit (a) whether an asset, liability, owner's equity, drawing, revenue, or expense account was affected and (b) whether the account was increased (+) or decreased account debited account credited transaction type effect type effect (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9)

Transactions on april 1 of the current year, andrea byrd established a business to manage rental property. she completed the following transactions during april: opened a business bank account with a deposit of $45,000 from personal funds. purchased office supplies on account, $2,000. received cash from fees earned for managing rental property, $8,500. paid rent on office and equipment for the month, $5,000. paid creditors on account, $1,375. billed customers for fees earned for managing rental property, $11,250. paid automobile expenses for month, $840, and miscellaneous expenses, $900. paid office salaries, $3,600. determined that the cost of supplies on hand was $550; therefore, the cost of supplies used was $1,450. withdrew cash for personal use, $2,000. required: 1. indicate the effect of each transaction and the balances after each transaction: for those boxes in which no entry is required, leave the box blank. for those boxes in which you must enter subtractive or negative numbers use a minus sign. (example: -300)

Onsider the following subscription behavior information from genie, a web site that provides tools for constructing a family tree (ancestor search). subscriptions cost $9.99 per month, but you are charged for the entire year at the time of purchase. there is a one-year minimum term when you sign up for the service. once purchased, subscriptions are set to renew automatically unless the subscriber cancels them. when a membership renews, it renews for a one-year term and again you are charged for the entire year. there are no variable costs associated with providing this service to an individual customer, but genie does engage in customer relationship activities that they believe will increase customer retention. these customer relationship activities cost genie about $10 per year per customer. based on a sample of 1000 customers that joined genie five years ago, near the time when the company was founded, they were able to determine how many of those customers remained subscribers in the second year, third year etc. based on this information, genie calculated the average annual retention rate to be 20%. genie uses an annual discount rate of 8%. a. last year, genie spent $10,000 placing advertisements on google. genie management believes that these advertisements were responsible for about 300 new subscribers. would you recommend to genie management that they purchase more google ads? b. suppose a newly-introduced loyalty program increases the number of customers that remained to 30%. does this new data change your answer to 9.a? c. do you have any hesitations or concerns about making recommendations to management based on your above estimate of customer lifetime value?