ACCT 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Santa Barbara City College, Inventory Turnover, Operating Lease
Document Summary
Liquidity - measures short-term ability to pay maturing obligations and meet unexpected cash needs within the next year: current ratio, receivables turnover ratio. Solvency - measures ability to meet long-term obligations: debt to total assets, times interest earned. Indicates the extent to which a company"s assets are financed by debt: debt to total assets = total liabilities / total assets, lower is better. Provides an indication of a company"s ability to meet interest payments as they come due: times interest earned = (net income + interest expense + income tax expense (ebit)) / interest expense, higher is better. Debt to total assets 40% in 2018, 52% in 2017. Times interest earned 7 times in 2018, 11 times in 2017: identify whether the change in each ratio is an improvement or deterioration, did the company"s overall solvency improve or deteriorate in 2018. Deterioration, because company struggled to make interest payments (times interest earned)