Foundations of Financial Management
Foundations of Financial Management
16th Edition
ISBN: 9781259277160
Author: Stanley B. Block, Geoffrey A. Hirt, Bartley Danielsen
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 16, Problem 1DQ
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To explain: The impact on interest coverage due to the dramatic expansion of corporate debt.

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Corporate Debt:

It is the debt owed by corporations rather than governments or individuals. It is circulated as commercial paper while long-term debt is circulated as bonds. It is a non-government debt security.

Interest coverage ratio:

It is a financial ratio used to determine the way a corporation can timely and easily pay interest on its debt.

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Answer to Problem 1DQ

The impact on interest coverage due to the dramatic expansion of corporate debt was such that the ratio had been brought down to almost less than half the original interest.

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Over the years, precisely since 1977, it has been observed by many analysts that there is a dramatic expansion of corporate debt over the last 3 decades. It has a major impact on interest coverage as U.S. manufacturing corporations had to cover their interest 8 times. Not only that, the value of the ratio was brought down to less than half the original value by the 2000s.

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