 In this discussion, we will discuss the discussion question of describe the production budget and how it is prepared. If we see a discussion question or an essay question like this, we would might want to note that the production budget is part of the master budget type of process. It's going to be in accordance with some of the goals of the budgeting process. We could go through the goals of the budgeting process. We then may want to point out that the budgeting process will typically be in some type of order, often starting with the sales budget, ending with those budgeted financial statements, the budgeted income statement, the budgeted balance sheet, the production budget. And remember, we're thinking about producing items, we have inventory that we're typically considering when we're considering this master budget type process. Here we're talking about the production budget, the production of the inventory. So the production budget is typically going to be something that will be in units. We're trying to decide how many units we're going to produce. And therefore to get to the production budget, we must have the sales budget. So you got to have the sales budget because that's going to determine how many units we're going to sell. And so once we know how many units we're going to sell, then we can consider how many units we're going to produce.