Managing Credit Vocabulary
Across
- 3. interest rate on the unpaid portion of a balance
- 6. most commonly used credit score
- 7. long-term failure to repay a loan
- 8. financial advisor who helps consumers repay debt in a responsible manner
- 9. three-digit number based on credit history
- 12. someone with little to no credit history
- 15. method of debt repayment in which debts with the highest interest rates are paid down first
Down
- 1. measurement of outstanding debt divided by total available credit
- 2. legal process that relieves debtors of the responsibility of paying their debts or protects them while they try to repay
- 4. company that collects and sells information regarding credit management
- 5. measurement of assets minus your liabilities; also called wealth
- 10. method of debt repayment in which the smallest balances are paid down first
- 11. record of a person's use of credit over time
- 13. recovery of a past-due credit obligation or debt by a collection department or agency
- 14. agreement in which a borrower receives something of value and agrees to repay the lender in the future