Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• DEBT RATIOS - Ratios that show the extent to which the firm is financed by debt.
  
  
• DEBT RELIEF - Reducing the principal and/or interest payments on Less developed country loans.
  
  
• DEBT RETIREMENT - The complete repayment of debt. See: Sinking fund.
  
  
• DEBT SECURITIES - IOUs created through loan-type transactions-commercial paper, bank CDs, bills, bonds,...
  
  
• DEBT SECURITY - Any financial instrument representing a creditor relationship between the issuer (the d...
  
  
• DEBT SERVICE - the ratio of a loan payment amount to available cash flow earned during a specific perio...
  
  
• DEBT SERVICE CONSTANT - a factor that, multiplied by the original loan principal, yields the annual deb...
  
  
• DEBT SERVICE COVERAGE - the ratio of cash flow available to pay for debt to the total amount of debt pa...
  
  
• DEBT SERVICE COVERAGE (DSC) - The margin by which all of a borrower’s or bond issuer's required princip...
  
  
• DEBT SERVICE COVERAGE RATIO - A simple comparison of the cash available to make principal and interest ...