Mark X Case

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Bankruptcy and Reorganization – Case 39 MARK X COMPANY Mark X Company is in a precarious financial position – it is overextended, and unless the company can persuade its bank to continue present loans and also grant substantial additional credit, Mark X may well go under. The company’s 1992 yearend balance sheet is contained in Table 1. Before the bank will reach a decision on whether to continue supporting Mark X, Carolyn Mayo, the banker handling the Mark X account, must prepare a report for the bank’s Senior Loan Committee. The report must contain a complete bankruptcy analysis which sets forth the bank’s exposure in the event of liquidation. To begin her analysis, Mayo estimated what values the assets would have is Mark X were liquidated. Working with the bank’s appraisers and liquidation experts, she concluded that the land and buildings could be sold for $5 million, while the equipment would bring in another $3 million. The receivables could be sold for $0.75 on the dollar, but the inventory would bring only $0.50 on the dollar. Next, Mayo had to make sure that she understood the nature of the claims against Mark X. The accruals currently (that is, at the end of 1992) consist of $5 million of accrued taxes and $2,331,000 of accrued wages. The wages were all earned within the past two weeks, and no single employee is due more than $2,000. A long-term bank loan actually consists of two different loans: $5 million in straight unsecured debt, plus another $4,563,000 in loans that are subordinate to the $5 million loan. Weels Fargo, extended both the short-term loan and the senior long-term loan, while a competitor bank holds the subordinated note for $4,563,000. Mayo estimates that the administrative expenses for the trustee in bankruptcy would total $600,000 – this amount would be “taken off the top” in any liquidation or reorganization procedure. Finally,

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