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Consolidated industries has total interest charges of $42,800 per year. sales of $2.8 million which can generate an after-tax profit of 9.4% of sales. the firm applies a tax rate of 34%. what is the firm’s times-interest-earned ratio?
Times-interest earned ratio is the ratio between the Earnings Before Interest and Taxes (EBIT) and interest expenses.
Sales = $2,800,000
After-tax profit = 0.094 * $2,800,000
= $263,200
Before tax profit = After-tax profit / (1 - tax rate)
= $263,200 / (1 - 0.34)
= $398,787.88
EBIT = Before tax profit + Interest (interest is added to calculate EBIT because it was deducted intially to arrive at taxable profit)
EBIT = $398,787.88 + $42,800
= $441,587.88
Times interest earned ratio = EBIT / Interest expense
= $441,587 / $42,800
= 10.32
Thus, answer is 10.32 .
Times interest earned ratio is 10.32.