...who wanted to know how I calculated one of the amounts for services in my annual budget - which totaled around 20 million dollars. I took one look and said "That came from corporate Accounting."

He asked how I knew that and I told him that it had cents on it and that I rounded all my budget amounts to whole dollars on a monthly basis. "So you just willy-nilly round off your budget dollars?" I looked back and replied that we were lucky to get within thousands on most of them and rounding them to an even dollar amount should never make a difference. He actually ordered me to use the cents in the future.

I just shook my head and walked away. BTW - the $20 million did not include the cost of raw materials, which were mostly petroleum based and highly volatile. It was nothing to miss the raw materials budgets, which were over a half billion dollars, by 100 million or more. They were strictly market based. Thank God I enhanced that guess at things like office supplies cost by no more than $12.