Pleasantville maintains an appropriations ledger for police department supplies. The amount appropriated for supplies was $100,000. The ledger shows that two purchase orders were placed, PO A for $35,000 and PO B for $28,000. The supplies ordered on PO B arrived and were accepted; the invoice was for $29,000. At that point, how much of the appropriation was available for spending

Adrawback of short-term contracting as an alternative to making a component in-house is thata. it is the most-integrated alternative to performing an activity so the principal company has no control over the agent. b. the supplying firm has no incentive to make any transaction-specific investments to increase performance or quality. c. it fails to allow a long planning period that individual market transactions provide. d. the buying firm cannot demand lower prices due to the lack of a competitive bidding process.