Production managers and marketing managers are like oil and water. they just don't mix." how can a budget assist in reducing battles between these two areas? a. budgets can assist in reducing conflicts between these two functions by using good communication. the marketing department could share information about seasonal demand with the production department. b. budgets are useful to hold employees accountable for their spending and not meeting minimum requirements of the company. c. by using budgets, it would cause these two functions to reduce conflicts because the two departments would realize how important they both are to the company as a whole. d. since production and marketing traditionally have operated as relatively independent business functions by giving them their own budgets to comply with they will continue to co-exist but to be separate departments.