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Suppose your chosen company requires AUD 10 Million to finance a new project and your finance managers are evaluating whether to borrow or issue new shares.
a) Identify 2 key financial ratios that will be important to creditors.
Two financial ratio which would be important to creditors while lending are as follows-
A. Times Interest Earned= (EBIT/ Total interest payment)- Times interest earned will be reflecting the ability of the company to repay its overall interest as it will be reflecting the overall earning of the company and it will be compared with the total interest payment of the company so the higher the ratio the better the chances of the company for getting the loan because the company will be having higher earning ability in order to fulfill the interest cost.
B. Debt Equity Ratio= it is the ratio of total debt to total equity and it will be reflecting that if there is a higher amount of debt to the total equity of the company then the company will be facing the solvency risk and it would not be liked by creditors, so they will be preferring that the company will be having a lower portion of the debt capital into the overall capital structure so there is a lower risk associated with lending capital to these companies and hence there would be a preference for lower debt capital in total capital structure by the creditors