17.1 You are the newly appointed management accountant of Brewster Fitzpayne Limited, a small manufacturing company. The management accounting information used in the company has previously been at a low level in terms of both quantity and quality. The finance director of the company was himself appointed only a few months ago, and he has decided that, as a priority, the management information system should be improved. He is planning, with your assistance, to install a budgeting system, but he needs to persuade his fellow directors that this innovation will be of benefit to the company. He has asked you to draft a briefing paper to the board setting out the principal benefits of a system of budgetary control.