Austin and kayla have $35,000 in debt (student loan, credit cards, car loan) but have cut up all of their credit cards and started their debt snowball. austin just got a substantial raise and their household income is now $125,000 ($3,500 more per month, net). should he cash out his 401(k), which has about $25,000, pay off his debt, and start again from square one

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.