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For borrowers and their advisors

A breach and a failing business
look identical on a summary page.

A covenant test produces one number, and that number cannot tell a credit committee whether it is looking at a solvency problem or a working-capital problem wearing a solvency costume. This is how you show them the difference before they decide which one you are.

What you are up against

One ratio decides everything

A single figure below a single threshold moves you into a workout queue, whatever the underlying business is doing.

Nobody argues the denominator

Every file argues about earnings. Fixed charges are treated as fixed — and cash trapped in receivables is being financed at your revolver rate.

Your plan reads as optimism

A recovery plan with no arithmetic attached is indistinguishable from hope, and it will be read as hope.

A look inside

Curing the covenant, both ways

The coverage ratio with earnings alone, and again once trapped working capital stops being borrowed — the lever almost no file pulls. From Kestrel Fabrication Ltd..

Fixed charge coverage as filed
1.08×
against a required 1.25×, a $92,950 shortfall
Earnings fixes alone
1.39×
a contract template change, nothing more
With the balance sheet collected
1.78×
$1.39M of your own cash stops being borrowed
Nine levers over a model calibrated to the filed breach
The quarter-by-quarter path, and when the ratio actually crosses
The eight reported quarters restated as they would have read
A costed action list with effort and horizon against each item
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