An accounting thing. How you'll figure out when your business bills are due. An Aging of Payables table shows you which bills are due when, and how old they are (in 30, 60 and 90-plus day increments).
If the trend is that you're paying them, or the company in which you seek to make an investment is paying them at a slower and slower clip, odds are good that something is rotten in Denmark (or Silicon Valley or wherever), and that you need to do deeper inspection as to why the payables are getting paid...slower.
Cash problem? Bad vendors? Bad vendor relationships?
The goal? Getting clarity as to how the financial sausage is actually being made.
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junk in the trunk makes enema kits for Elephants . what they get stopped up too. [tower with "junk in the trunk" written on it]
just need you know big bags. anyway so you've extruded ten thousand bags. you
need ten thousand giant hooks to hang the bags on palm trees and ten thousand
tube thingies for the you know de new mall. they cost you a total of 60 grand
to produce and are not yet packaged. the product isn't finished.
in fact the rubber hosing and so on has to be made of a special material that
takes three months to fully dry. you know that African climate is hell on rubber.
you also have four tons of rubber in blocks sitting around the factory floor [ants crawl across the floor]
with ants singing to it. and you have a mile of wire you'll eventually Bend into
bag hanging hooks it's just sitting in a coil.
alright you paid for the rubber blocks, and the wire already it's just sitting
there so these elements of product are in process. the product isn't finished
completed or ready to ship. so work in process inventory really just consists
of raw materials at various stages of production. and you know generally work
in processes just sitting on the factory floor versus out the door when it then
becomes a finished goods. and just remember that concept for you next time
you're unpacking a pachyderm. [woman in white coat peeks out from behind an elephant]
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