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One Criticism of the Interest and Fixed Charges Coverage Ratios

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One criticism of the interest and fixed charges coverage ratios as measures of long-term solvency risk is that they use earnings rather than cash flows in the numerator.Detail how the interest coverage ratio and fixed charges coverage ratio are calculated.In addition,discuss why using earnings in the numerator is a problem and what method could be used to alleviate this problem.


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