Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• DEBT SERVICE COVERAGE (DSC)
  
  The margin by which all of a borrower’s or bond issuer's required principal payments (not just those for the loan under consideration or just those for loans to one bank) are exceeded by the sum of the firm's cash flow plus all of the principal repayments and interest expense deducted in the process of calculating that cash flow.
  
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