The encroachment, breach, or violation of a right, law, regulation, or contract. The term is most frequently used in reference to the invasion of rights secured by Copyright, patent, or trademark.
Multiply the after-tax interest rate of your debt by the principal amount of your debt. The result will be the true annual dollar cost of your debt. For example, if your loan is for $100,000, your interest rate is 5 percent and your after-tax interest rate is 4 percent, $100,000 times 4 percent equals $4,000.
Calculating the debt-to-equity ratio is simply a matter of taking the amount of money a company uses to finance its operations and dividing that by the total available capital. For example, a business that has accumulated $50 million in debt and has $150 million in assets has $200 million in available capital.