After completing your budget for each department, answer the following questions:

What are the total expenses for each of the 3 departments?

R&D wants to make the part time scientist, scientist #2, a full time position with a salary equivalent to the other two scientists in the department. Based on budgetary constraints, do you think that this request should be approved?

Marketing and sales wants to increase the advertising budget by $250,000 annually. What will the impact on that departments overall budget be if this increase is granted?

The CFO of Globex Corp. has stated that the company needs to decrease total expenses on the administrative side of the house by 5%. After looking at the budget for R&D, M&S, and Administrative, where would you suggest making cuts to save an overall 5% across the 3 departments?