Terri, the production manager spoke up, "Hey, wait a minute Alex. You're the CFO. I'm doing everything I can just to keep up with demand down there on the floor. I don't have time to worry about that kind of thing. We had a press go down last week and I had an entire shift of down time. Besides, that's your job, Alex." "You know she has a point there Alex. You are the CFO. I need Terri to put all of her time towards keeping the production line running smoothly," Don said. "Look, Don, Alex replied, "In January I asked everyone to send me their budgets for the year and the only thing I got was a sales budget from Peter with a note attached that asked for a pay increase for his account managers." Brian raised his hand to speak. "Well, I know I'm new here, but at my last company we had budgets for sales, finished goods, cash - pretty much everything was budgeted. It seemed to work pretty well, and everyone had a good grasp of where we were financially." Alex, the CFO gave Brian an icy stare. Don turned to Alex. "Alex, I think this young man has a point. Is there some reason why we aren't budgeting like he described?"