Aging is an important process when it comes to cheese making. When the cheese is all ready to go out, it is given a aging time. It is this aging period that defines the flavor, taste and aroma of any cheese. Edam cheese ages well and with time it is much better. Different cheese varieties have different aging periods.
This chapter introduces flexible budgets. The most common budgets prepared on a flexible basis focus on total production costs, or some measure of profitability, such as an income statement budget. Flexible budgets are useful for performance evaluation of cost and profit centers.
A cash budget details a company's cash inflow and outflow during a specified budget period, such as a month, quarter or year. Its primary purpose is to provide the status of the companyâs cash position at any point of time. This helps the company make critical decisions such as creating cash reserves to make arrangements for projected shortages and using excess funds prudently. Additionally, the cash budget helps in prioritizing payments in the budget period. It also helps in analyzing budget-versus-actual variances in cash inflow and outflow. Short-term cash budgets aim to solve cash requirements on a weekly or monthly basis.