Toward the End of the Fiscal Year,the Owner of a Small

Multiple Choice

Toward the end of the fiscal year,the owner of a small company came back from lunch concerned because he had learned that a business targeted to the same customers as his was planning on spending $150,000 on promotion.As soon as he arrived at the office,he called his financial manager and said,"I want to budget $150,000 for next year's promotion." Which method of promotional budgeting did the owner want to use?

A) the objective-task method
B) the percentage-of-sales method
C) the competitive-parity method
D) the bottom-up method
E) the pull-push method