how to improve the 3-digit number that shapes your financial future /
Liz Weston
4th ed
Upper Saddle River, N.J. :
FT Press,
c2012
xxii, 218 p. ;
23 cm
Includes index
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