To accommodate surface mount technology, SMT, a completely new set of components was needed. New SMT outlines were required, and often the same components, e.g. ICs were sold in both traditional leaded packages and SMT packages.
The most well known financial leverage ratio is the debt-to-equity ratio. It is expressed as: Total debt / Total Equity. For example, if a company has $10M in debt and $20M in equity, it has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.50 = ($10M/$20M).
Financial Leverage Ratio Page 70. This ratio measures the effectiveness of management in using debt to increase the amount of assets the company employs to earn income for stockholders. The higher the number, the more assets are financed through debt; the lower the number, the more assets are financed through equity. Total Asset Turnover Ratio Page 126. This ratio measures the effectiveness of management in generating sales from the companies assets.