Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• DEBT SERVICE COVERAGE RATIO
  
  A simple comparison of the cash available to make principal and interest payments to the bank or to bond holders with the amount of those required principal and interest payments. Debt service coverage is expressed as a ratio with the annual net income divided by the annual debt service requirement.
  
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