ACC 519

Dell Credit Analysis Assignment

  1. Using the Dell financials on the excel sheet provided for your ratio assignments and the copy of Dell’s 2013 10k, analyze Dell’s credit as follows:
    1. Calculate for 2013 all liquidity and Solvency Ratios listed in the Power Point Slides for Credit Analysis
    2. Does Dell have any other sources of liquidity in 2013? If so, what are they?
    3. Does Dell have any debt that will mature in the next 2 years(2014-15)? If so, how much and when?
    4. What about the C’s of Character and Condition for Dell? Would they be positives or negatives in credit analysis?
    5. Many times a simple model can be used to get a predicted credit rating. For example, Aswath Damodaran, a professor at NYU suggests simply using the interest coverage ratio. Using the chart found here: http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home_Page/datafile/ratings.htm  and your calculations for Dell, estimate what its credit rating would have been in 2013.  Note that Dell’s market cap was > &5 billion in 2013