Author Question: If the only information you are given about Ryan Corporation, a large public company in business for ... (Read 181 times)

Chloeellawright · **on:** Jul 11, 2018

If the only information you are given about Ryan Corporation, a large public company in business for many years, is that it has a current ratio of 2.9, what could you infer from this?

A) It can meet the short-term obligations without any difficulty.
B) You could determine that Ryan has a liquidity problem because Ryan's current ratio is greater than 2 which is the rule of thumb for the current ratio.
C) Nothing, you would also need the current ratio's from the last few years of the S&P 500 Index.
D) You could determine that Ryan has an activity problem because Ryan's current ratio is greater than 2 which is the rule of thumb for the current ratio.

Question 2

The cost to maturity of existing bonds reflects the rate of return required by the market.

Indicate whether the statement is true or false