Michael Stanton of ABC Company was sitting with Mark Leduc of XYZ Company at a dinner meeting ofthe local chapter ofThe Institute of Internal Auditors. Michael was grousing. He said, "That supervisor ofmine is on my back about budget on my audit assignment."
Mark looked surprised. "Do you mean you work on a budget on each job?"
"You bet," said Michael. "On every single one."
"Doesn't make sense to me, " replied Mark. "You can't straitjacket an operational audit. If you insist on budgets and schedules, you'll never get an in-depth audit."
"Well, I don't know," stated Michael, quick to take the other side because he loved to argue. "If you let a job hang loose, it never gets done. You have to have some discipline to bring the job in without letting the audithours pour down the drain."
"But operational auditing is a creative effort," explained Mark. "Budgets and schedules will stifle it. I couldn't work under such constraints."
"Oh, yes you could, if you had to.
Actually, the discipline is good for you;
it keeps you on your toes and gives you a goal to work toward," said Michael.
Required: 

State who is right. Why?