For example, if a company has long-term debt of $100 million and total equity of $278 million, the debt-equity ratio of the firm is 36 percent. Of note, industries often have debt-equity ratio norms; therefore, investors should only compare ratios of firms operating in the same sectors.he total debt ratio compares the total liabilities with the total assets of a firm. Unlike the debt-equity ratio, short-term assets and liabilities are factored into the equation. The calculation is straightforward, the firm's total liabilities are divided by total assets.
Definition of qual. in English: 1  qual. 2  a piece of flavoured ice or ice cream on a stick. 3  a rope with a suspended handle or pulley enabling a person to slide between two points. 4  a dance move popular in the sixties.
In philosophy, qualia (/ËkwÉËliÉ/ or /ËkweÉªliÉ/ ; singular form: quale) are individual instances of subjective, conscious experience. The term qualia derives from the Latin neuter plural form (qualia) of the Latin adjective quÄlis (. [ËkwaËlis]) meaning of what sort or of what kind). Examples of qualia include the pain of a headache, the taste of wine, or the perceived redness of an evening sky. Daniel Dennett (b. 1942), American philosopher and cognitive scientist, regards qualia as an unfamiliar term for something that could not be more familiar to each of us: the ways things seem to us.