Table of Contents:
  • Why your credit score matters
  • How credit scoring works
  • FICO versus 'FAKO' : competitors to the leading score
  • Improving your score : the right way
  • Credit-scoring myths
  • Coping with a credit crisis
  • Rebuilding your score after a credit disaster
  • Identity theft and your credit
  • Emergency! : fixing your credit score fast
  • Insurance and your credit score
  • Can bad credit cost you a job?
  • Keeping your score healthy