The Petry Company has $1,312,500 in current assets and $525,000 in current liabilities. Its initial inventory level is $375,000, and it will raise funds as additional notes payable and use them to increase inventory. HOW MUCH CAN PETRY'S SHORT-TERM DEBT (NOTES PAYABLE) INCREASE WITHOUT PUSHING ITS CURRENT RATIO BELOW 2.0?

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Hi, rdbroeker!

If you post what you think is the answer as well as how you arrived at it, you'll be more likely to have someone knowledgeable come along to confirm whether you're correct, and if not, to show you how you can come up with the correct answer.

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Hi, rdbroeker!

If you post what you think is the answer as well as how you arrived at it, you'll be more likely to have someone knowledgeable come along to confirm whether or not you're correct, and if not, to show you how you can come up with the correct answer.

Thanks!

I'm learning. It took a bazillion more tries, and then finally it came to me.
You have to increase current liabilities as well as current assets by X to arrive at the given ratio...

Ding, ding, we have a winner!

For the standard expression for current ratio \frac{CA}{CL}

... get the problem teed up as the inequality...

\frac{\text{1,312,500 + x}}{\text{525,000 + x}} \ \geq \ 2.0

... and then solve it for x (remembering that x in this case represents a positive quantity). You'll end up with a statement that x must be no more than some particular amount--and of course if you set x equal to such amount, the current ratio will be precisely 2.0. Nice job, rdbroeker!

$262,500 is the correct answer

Bjray1, the thread is from January. And we also do not just give answers for homework - we try to help them understand it, check their work, etc. You've posted without bothering to even read the entire thread. Read post #2 where the link to the homework guidelines are.