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B Basic

  • Business risk before ratios9m
  • Ratios beyond leverage and coveragePro9m
  • Sizing a loan from three testsPro10m

A Advanced

  • Stress tests: rates, earnings, and both at oncePro10m
  • Lending to recurring revenue companiesPro10m
  • Asset based lending and the borrowing basePro11m
  • Pricing and risk adjusted returnPro11m
  • FlashcardsPro0/14
  • Basic quizPro80% passes
  • Advanced quizPro80% passes
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The work between the first ratio and the yes or no: what kind of business it is, how much it can borrow, how it holds up under stress, and whether the price pays for the risk.

BBasic3 lessons

  1. 1Business risk before ratiosRatios describe one year. The business decides whether next year looks like it. Lenders start with what the company sells, to whom, and what it has to spend to keep selling it.9 min
  2. 2Ratios beyond leverage and coverageProLeverage and coverage open the conversation. Free cash flow to debt, debt to capitalization, and liquidity runway finish it, and the trend in each matters more than this year's level.9 min
  3. 3Sizing a loan from three testsProHow much a company can borrow is the smallest of three answers: what leverage the market accepts, what interest the earnings can cover, and what the cash flow can repay.10 min
  4. QBasic quizPro10 questions, 80% passes

AAdvanced4 lessons

  1. 4Stress tests: rates, earnings, and both at onceProFloating rate loans move two levers at once in a bad year: earnings fall and, often, interest rises. A good stress test runs them together and checks what a hedge buys.10 min
  2. 5Lending to recurring revenue companiesProSome software companies borrow before they make money. The loan is sized on recurring revenue, protected by retention and liquidity, and expected to convert to an EBITDA test later.10 min
  3. 6Asset based lending and the borrowing baseProAn asset based loan is sized on what the lender could collect from receivables and inventory, recalculated every month. The cash flow matters less; the collateral matters more.11 min
  4. 7Pricing and risk adjusted returnProA loan's price is a spread, a discount, and fees. Its real return is that price less expected losses, and for most funds, magnified by borrowing against the loan.11 min
  5. QAdvanced quizPro10 questions, 80% passes