As a hospital employee, your manager explains they are preparing a budget. They seek your opinion on the amount of spending that needs to be done in certain areas and asks about your usage of certain office supplies and medical supplies. They explain that they are required to justify each expenditure that will be made and account for all potential costs. This approach to budgeting would most likely be categorized as:

- Authoritarian budgeting.
- Participatory budgeting.
- Incremental budgeting.
- Zero-base budgeting.