MR LAX
You see, if someone's doing a presentation to someone else about a proposal for a project, surely the budget forms part of the proposal.  You say to your people that "Here we are, this is the way we intend presenting it, this is how much it's going to cost our organisation: airfares x 3, accommodation x 2, possible salary suggested X."  It then goes through, they decided no, hang on this is too much, they scrap that by so much or whatever.  But surely you as the person putting forward a proposal, which is what it was, would prepare a reasonably detailed budget.