The National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA) help economists and policymakers to: A) determine which firms are likely to succeed or fail. B) follow the long-run course of the economy to determine whether it has grown or stagnated. C) measure what is occurring in each specific labor market. D) accomplish all of these.

As a member of the software development team at your company, you have been asked to provide a plan for how your new GPS goods and services locator software application can provide automatic updates of the required data to your customers. Your task is to develop a plan, and submit it to your development team for implementation.

• Prepare a document to submit your work:
• Use Word.
• Title page
• Course number and name
• Project name
• Student name
• Date
• Provide a plan for the software updates:
• Identify the major steps involved in the data file update process, and identify which of the steps can be performed using scripting.
• Select an appropriate scripting language for the tasks that can be performed using scripting, and justify your selection.
• Provide well-documented script code in the selected language for at least 2 of the functions that would be used within the major scripting tasks. For example, the scripted solution may be required to receive a query from a remote computer with a date of the remote computerâ€s data file, and the script must receive this request and determine if the remote computerâ€s data file is current.