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Xi—Working Capital/Total Assets. The Working capital/Total assets ratio,frequently found in studies of corporate problems, is a measure of the net liquidassets of the firm relative to the total capitalization. Working capital is definedas the difference between current assets and current liabilities. Liquidity andsize characteristics are explicitly considered. Ordinarily, a firm experiencingconsistent operating losses will have shrinking current assets in relation to totalassets. Of the three liquidity ratios evaluated, this one proved to be the mostvaluable.^^ Inclusion of this variable is consistent with the Merwin study which20. The Beaver study (cited earlier) concluded that the cash flow to debt ratio was the bestsingle ratio predictor. This ratio was not considered here because of the lack of consistent appearanceof precise depredation data. The results obtained, however (see section IV), are superior tothe results Beaver attained with his single best ratio, see Beaver, op. cit., p. 89.21. The MDA computer program used in this study was developed by W. Cooley and P. Lohnes.The data are organized in a blocked format; the bankrupt firms' data first followed by the nonbankruptfirms'.22. The other two liquidity ratios were the current ratio and the quick ratio. The Workingcapital/Total assets ratio showed greater statistical significance both on a univariate and multivariatebasis.
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