Chapter 9, Problem 9.22AE

LO 4, 5

(Learning Objectives 4, 5: Analyze current and long-term liabilities; evaluate debt-paying ability) EnviroFriend Structures. Inc., builds environmentally sensitive structures. The company’s 2018 revenues totaled $2.780 million. At December 31, 2018, and 2017, the company had, respectively, $656 million and $591 million in current assets. The company’s balance sheets and income statements reported the following amounts;

Requirements

  1.    Describe each of EnviroFriend’s long-term liabilities and state how the liability arose.

  2.    What were the company’s total assets at December 31, 2018? Evaluate the company’s leverage and debt ratios at the end of 2017 and 2018. Use year-end figures in place of average where needed for calculating the ratios in this exercise. Did the company improve, deteriorate, or remain about the same over the year?