Get your own credit

Article Abstract:

It is a smart and advantageous move to establish individual credit no matter what the existing marital status. Techniques on how to maintain credit under various marital conditions are presented. These include: being newly-wed and creating a joint credit account if either one of the couple is ineligible singularly; being married and having a joint account under both of the couple's names; being widowed and updating the credit application of a formerly joint account; and being divorced and closing all authorized-user accounts that carry the former-married couple's name.

Commercial Credit

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Safeguard your SSN

Article Abstract:

Social Security numbers (SSN) are best kept confidential by the individual holders. Theft of SSNs have been known to occur and are used to further obtain bank account and credit card numbers. In disclosing an SSN, measures to lessen the chances of it being illegally utilized are suggested by Consumer Research magazine. Some of these precautions involve providing it only to a government agency that is authorized to demand it, disclosing it to the state motor vehicles office only if actually necessary and not indicating the number on mailing labels.

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Surviving the credit crunch

Article Abstract:

New federal regulations have limited the ability of small businesses to obtain credit from banks. Consequently, small business operators should think of measures to prevent such occurences. Awareness of their bank's financial status is necessary and this is done by analyzing business reports. Loan brokers should be avoided because these may prove costlier in the long run. Alternative should be worked out and includes establishing transactions and credit line with another bank and realistic analysis of current business plans.

Finance, Small business, Financial management

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