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Evaluating Debt-Paying AbilityYou are a loan officer with Third Nebraska Bank. Joe West ow...

Evaluating Debt-Paying Ability

You are a loan officer with Third Nebraska Bank. Joe West owns two successful restaurants, each of which has applied to your bank for a $250,000 one-year loan for the purpose of opening a second location. Condensed balance sheets for the two business entities are shown below.

NEBRASKA STEAK RANCH

BALANCE SHEET

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Assets

Liabilities&Stockholders’ Equity

Current assets

$ 75,000

Current liabilities

$ 30,000

Plant and equipment

300,000

Long-term liabilities

200,000

 

 

Capital stock

100,000

 

______________

Retained earnings

45,000

Total assets

$375,000

Total liabilities&stockholders’ equity

$375,000

THE STOCKYARDS

BALANCE SHEET

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Assets

Liabilities&Owners’ Equity

Current assets

$ 24,000

Current liabilities

$ 30,000

Plant and equipment

301,000

Long-term liabilities

200,000

 

______________

Capital stock

95,000

Total assets

$325,000

Liabilities&Owners’ Equity

$325,000

Both restaurants are popular and have been successful over the past several years. Nebraska Steak Ranch has been slightly more profitable, but the operating results for the two businesses have been quite similar. You think that either restaurant’s second location should be successful. On the other hand, you know that restaurants are a “faddish” type of business and that their popularity and profitability can change very quickly.

Joe West is one of the wealthiest people in Nebraska. He made a fortune—estimated at more than $2 billion—as the founder of Micro Time, a highly successful manufacturer of computer software. West now is retired and spends most of his time at Second Life, his 50,000-acre cattle ranch. Both of his restaurants are run by experienced professional managers.

Instructions

a. Compute the current ratio and working capital of each business entity.


b. On the basis of the information provided in this case, which of these businesses do you consider to be the better credit risk? Explain fully.


c. What simple measure might you insist upon that would make the other business as good a credit risk as the one you identified in part b? Explain.

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