Finance question

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Originally Posted by bluejay

The Mitchem Marble Company has a target current ratio of 2.0 but has experienced some difficulties financing its expanding sales in the past few months. The firm has a current ratio of 2.5 with current assets of $2.5 million. If Mitchem expands its receivables and and inventories using its short-term line of credit, how much additional short-term funding can it borrow before its current ration standard is reached?

Current ration is defined by the book as current ration indicates a firm's liquidity, as measured by its liquid assets (current assets) relative to its liquid debt (short-term or current liabilities).

So a current ration is:
Current assets
current ration = current liabilities

I don't have any clue! Please help.

I'm not sure I understand it correctly but I'll try to work using the formula.

$\frac{\text{Current Assets}}{\text{Current Ratio}} = \text{Current Liabilities}$

$\frac{2,500,000}{2.5} = \text{Current Liabilities}$

$1,000,000 = \text{Current Liabilities}$

They want to reach their target current ratio of 2.0 if borrowing extra money.

Use the same formula.

$\frac{2,500,000}{2.0} = \text{Target Current Liabilities}$

$\frac{2,500,000}{2.0} = 1,250,000$

So they can borrow:
$1,250,000 - 1,000,000 = 250,000$ extra, and reach their target current ratio of $2.0$