Having worked in a previous job as middle management, I know how the game works, make a presentation that raises "issues", this leads to another presentation/meeting, which leads to another and so on and so forth...The ultimate aim is to spin this process out for as long as possible in order to justify your job, and when someone comes along demanding answers make sure that your not in the firing line. I know I was very good at it, even getting to the stage of not doing a single days work in two months. Eventually I grew up, my conscience got the better of me, and I resigned.
The point is, for the BA management who are reading this, is that we are not stupid we know what you are doing,(mostly nothing), and we don't feel you should be rewarded for it while we are asked to pay for it.