Bonita Industries purchased a new machine on October 31, 2020. A $4900 down payment was made and three monthly installments of $820 each are to be made beginning on November 30, 2020. The cash price would have been $47000. Bonita paid no installation charges under the monthly payment plan but an $820 installation charge would have been incurred with a cash purchase. The amount to be capitalized as the cost of the machine on October 31, 2020 would be:

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.