During part 2 of the “Managing Your Money” podcast series, we met with Ryan Law, AFC®, CFP®, to discuss tips and tools for managing your finances while in school, budgeting, opening a checking and saving account, compound interest, and more.
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If you can use the plastic responsibly, you're actually much better off paying with a credit card than with a debit card and keeping cash transactions to a minimum.
For the 3rd and final episode of this series, we spoke with Melinda Croes, Training Institute manager for the Credit Builders Alliance, about understanding and protecting your credit along with the function of nationwide credit bureaus and credit reports, how credit scores are calculated, how to build credit and more.
A credit report is a statement that has information about your credit activity and current credit situation such as loan paying history and the status of your credit accounts.
Credit scores are calculated using information in your credit reports, including your payment history, the amount of debt you have, and the length of your credit history.
1. Checking your credit reports or credit scores will not impact credit scores
2. Regularly checking your credit reports and credit scores is a good way to ensure information is accurate
3. Hard inquiries in response to a credit application do impact credit scores
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