Chapter 13 Discussion Read Rubric First 1. What is the basic purpose for examining trends in a company's financial ratios and other data? What purpose do the ratios serve? 2.Which financial ratio(s) do you think are most important and why? 3. The president of a plastics company was quoted in a business journal as stating,"We haven't had a dollar of interest-paying debt in over 10 years. Not many companies can say that" As a stockholder in this company how would feel about its policy of of not taking on debt