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Help answer this question please LOI4-3, through LO14-5 You are a loan officer w

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LOI4-3, through LO14-5 You are a loan officer with Third Nebraska Bank. Joe West owns two successful restaurants, eaclh CASE 14.2 Evaluating Debt-Paying Ability of which has applied to your bank for a S250,000 one-year loan for the purpose of opening a sec- ond location. Condensed balance sheets for the two business entities are shown below. NEBRASKA STEAK RANCH BALANCE SHEET DECEMBER 31, 2015 Assets Liabilities & Stockholders' Equity Current liabilities . 00,000 onerm liabilities Total liabilities & stockholders' equity. $375,000 $375,000

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Debt Paying Ability - The company has good debt paying ability

Debt Ratio = Total Liabilities / Total Assets = 230000 / 375000 = 0.613

Company has debt ration below 1 which means the company has more assets than the debt it owes.

Debt to Equity Ratio = Total Liabilities / Stockholders Equity = 230000 / 145000 = 1.59

A high debt to equity ratio can mean two different things: If a company also has a low times interest earned, then it was probably a bit too reliant on funding operations with debt and will have a hard time paying its interest. If the company also has a very high times interest earned, then it was likely incurring debt to generate funding beyond what it could earn selling debt to generate sales

Equity Multiplier = Total Assets / Stockholders Equity = 375000 / 145000 = 2.59

This measures the ratio of company's assets that stockholders own.Ratio of 1 means company's assets are funded thru equity and less than 1 means that the company uses debt to fund its activities.