Times Interest Earned Ratio

Refer to Practice 12 17. Compute the times interest earned ratio.

Practice 12 17

Debt to Equity Ratio

Consider the following information:

Short term debt                                                              

$ 10,000

Interest expense                                                              

7,500

Total current liabilities                                                          

25,000

Long term debt                                                               

70,000

Cash                                                                       

2,700

Total liabilities                                                                

120,000

Total stockholders’ equity                                                        

90,000

Income before income taxes                                                      

12,000

Compute the debt to equity ratio assuming that (1) debt is defined to include all liabilities, (2) debt is defined to include just interest bearing debt, and (3) debt is defined to include just long term, interest bearing debt.