Article 67 Net worth balance
The Board of Directors is obliged to maintain the Club?s net assets, and in this regard must make the best effort to manage them as will be reflected in the formulation of the annual audited accounts without exceptions, showing a positive net worth balance after tax. If, despite this regulation, the liquidation of a financial year should show losses approved by the General Assembly, the Board of Directors must compensate for the amount lost in its operating results for the following two years.
Likewise, the Board of Directors must make the best effort to manage the Club with a net debt that is never greater than the amount resulting from multiplying by two the EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization). Despite this regulation, if the debt ratio is higher as a result of the liquidation of a previous financial year that is accepted by the General Assembly, the Board of Directors is obliged to re-establish the net worth balance in the following two financial years to achieve the aforesaid debt ratio. Compliance with this ratio must be expressly certified in the Club?s annual audit report.
If there is a change of Board of Directors during a process of establishing the net worth balance in any of the aforesaid circumstances, the new Board of Directors that has come into power will be bound for all purposes as long as the President formed part of the departing Board of Directors that was affected by the situation.
Manifest failure to comply with either of the two regulations stipulated in this article due to two financial years having passed since the one in which the non-compliance first occurred, without the net worth balance having been achieved, in either of the two circumstances, shall be cause for the immediate and advance dissolution of the Board of Directors, which will be replaced by a Managing Commission, whose composition, functions and competences shall be those described in article 35.4.
In order to calculate the net worth balance referred to in this article with respect to overall debt, sections corresponding to the finance of extraordinary investment projects in material property to be used for the Club?s sporting and ordinary activities shall not be included, for these will be the object a specific and independent finance plan.
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