01438cam a2200289 4500 114497179 TxAuBib 20120922120000.0 110728s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2011032211 9780132823494 pbk. : alk. paper 0132823497 pbk. : alk. paper DLC DLC YDX BTCTA YDXCP BWX DLC TxAuBib Weston, Liz Pulliam. Your credit score : how to improve the 3-digit number that shapes your financial future / Liz Weston. 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : FT Press, 2012. 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. 20120922. MG. eam. Credit scoring systems United States. Consumer credit United States. Credit ratings United States.