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Times interest earned ratio

Times interest earned ratio is a solvency measure that indicates a company’s ability to meet interest payments computed by dividing income before income taxes and interest expense by interest expense.


A debt ratio that measures how many times during the year a business earns the amount of interest t must pay; computed by dividing income before interest and taxes by interest expense.

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