| Session 15: Fixed Income: Basic Concepts Reading 61: Features of Debt Securities
 
 
 LOS a: Explain the purposes of a bond's indenture and describe affirmative and negative covenants.     Which of the following is an example of a positive covenant? The company: 
 
 
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| A) | must maintain a times interest earned ratio of at least two times. |  |  
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| B) | must not use the same collateral to back more than one debt obligation. |  |  
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| C) | may not sell fixed assets that have been pledged as collateral for the bonds. |  |  
 
   
Positive covenants specify what the company must do, negative covenants specify what they must not do. Both of the alternatives are examples of negative covenants. |