Auto FICO score question

I have one more payment due on my auto loan (YAY!) which I'll pay off in August. Does paying off an auto loan affect my auto FICO score? My FICO has my auto enhanced FICO scores at over 700. Will that drop with a paid off loan? Or does that number stay high since I have a good history with my auto loan? Currently, it's my only installment loan on my report so I'm expecting to take a hit for my credit mix. Thanks.

IllinoisNative wrote:
I have one more payment due on my auto loan (YAY!) which I'll pay off in August. Does paying off an auto loan affect my auto FICO score? My FICO has my auto enhanced FICO scores at over 700. Will that drop with a paid off loan? Or does that number stay high since I have a good history with my auto loan? Currently, it's my only installment loan on my report so I'm expecting to take a hit for my credit mix. Thanks.It is well known that there is a possibiltiy, is some instances a high one, that once an installment loan is fully paid off it can negatively affect your score, esp. if you have no other installment loans. As an example: http://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Understanding-FICO-Scoring/Paying-off-my-car-loan-ruined-my-credit-Score-dropped-70-points/td-p/2235271 If you do a google search of myFICO.com you will see many instances of this.

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Citi FICO Equifax Score question

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Hi Beck. I believe that most or all Citi cards get it now. My Citi Double Cash gets the free score. But since that is a pure Citibank question, you probably should just call them and they'll tell you. Ammer... As far as how to interpret the BankCard Enhanced version of FICO 8, that's an interesting question. Because that score can in theory get as high as 900, the closer your BCE score is to 851, the higher the probability is that your standard FICO 8 (300-850) will be lower. (If you have a BankCard Enhanced score of 851 it is 100% certain that your standard FICO 8 is lower.) Since your BCE score is 771 a fair guess is that your standard score is not much higher (though it could be). If you sign up for the myFICO monitoring package, you'll get almost every score under the sun, including the BCE and standard score using the EQ data. Even if you don't want to pay for the monitoring service indefinitely, it might be helpful to compare the two scores. Suppose one is 771 and the other is 768. You can't conclude with certainty that your standard score will always be 3 points lower than the BCE score, but that would give you some grounds for believing that the two scores are (in your case) pretty comparable.

Need advice helping raising my Fico score (571)

Hi guys, Long time lurker, first time poster. Long story short, I had a chapter 7 bankruptcy discharged September 2014. At that time, my Fico score rose 9 points to 584. Since that time, my Fico score dropped to 544, and has seen a very mild increase up to today’s date at 574. I don’t have any of my own credit cards, although I am an authorized user on all of my fiancés Credit Cards. Between her and I we have two installment (auto) loans. She has the following Credit Cards, with the credit limits in the first column, with our typical balances in the next column (first 5 cards are paid off in full each month by due date, the last 4 cards have running balances on them that are targeted to be paid off at various points in the next year) : American Express Blue Cash Everday: $2000 $200 10.0% Target Visa Credit Card: $6500 $600 9.2% Wal-Mart Mastercard: $6000 $400 6.7% Toys R Us Mastercard: $8000 $200 2.5% Kohl's Credit Card: $1500 $100 6.7% Kay Jewelers Credit Card: $7650 $700 9.2% will be paid off on 10/1/15Best Buy Credit Card: $3000 $2900 96.7% will be paid off on 2/10/16Citi Diamond Preferred Card: $8800 $7800 88.6% will be paid off on 6/3/15Capital One Card: $7000 $3300 48.5% will be paid off on 9/30/16 My question is: Do I need to add credit cards for just me, instead of being an authorized user on her cards? All of the cards I am added as an authorized user for are added to my credit report, and I thought with having multiple balances reporting each month that my score would change, but it really hasn’t at all. Does my bankruptcy really keep my score weighed down so much? Today I applied for a Capital One Quicksilver1 Unsecured card and was approved with a $1000 limit and I will start using that monthly. Should I apply for additional cards just under my name? I know that keeping most if not all cards below a 10% utilization rate is key, and we are trying to get there and hopefully won’t have any outstanding balances in one years time. However, I am curious as to what tips and advice I can get at helping raise my score. I figured that my score would be higher than it currently is, but clearly I am not doing the right things in raising it. Our plan is to purchase a new home next fall (she currently owns our current home just under her name), but by the time we are married next summer, it would be nice to have both of our incomes considered for a new house loan, and I certainly won’t help out that situation with my garbage credit rating. Thanks guys.

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Need advice helping raising my Fico score (574)

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AU not counting toward AAoA Equifax FICO score!!

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I am under the opinion, legally, it is suppose to count. And if it is counting or making a difference, how is it doing that without effecting AAoA or Utilization?Good question. My question is why AU's carry any weight at all in FICO scoring. If my FICO score is supposed to be an indication of how I pay my debts... how would being added to Mom's 30 year old CC and inheriting her payment history be any indication at all of how I would pay my debts? I was in like 4th grade 30 years ago. The whole thing is just baffling to me. I'm all for AU accounts... I have added my Dad to my Sallie Mae MC because he has a limited history and I wanted him to have a CC he can use on a daily basis... but IMHO the FICO score shouldn't be affected at all by someone else's account.I believe that this stems from the old housewives, married women don't get credit days. The wife was an AU on DH's account, but was the one that actually managed the finances for the family. This helped bring women into the credit world.Basically this, millions of stay-at-home spouses who didn't bother with credit effectively lost their credit scores when FICO 8 was introduced. It was rolled back in favor of an anti-abuse algorithm to determine whether the AU counts or doesn't. All or nothing now. Presumably the lenders don't want AU's to count still (or they wouldn't have pushed FICO to do that in the first place), it wouldn't surprise me if further tweaks happen. FWIW I would strongly recommend everyone to have tradelines in their own name, regardless of AU's on the report. While mortgages are leaving the mandate of having to have your own tradelines behind, it's simply better to have your own history period to fall back on. OP: you can't really trust any third party (including MF's) interpretation for an AAOA calculation. I would be stunned and amazed if the abuse calculation was given to the front-end developers in FICO Consumer who wrote the simulator.

Discover IT CLI+My first FICO score!

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Asked Chase How I See My FICO Score With Slate Card.....

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an FYI for those with Slate already. I was planning to close mine out after the BT period at 0% ends since it will have served its purpose and will go towards resetting the clock for hte offer in the future if I need it..... Are you saying you can use the slate offer 0% offer again after you close it for a period of time...? Monoglot, this a 4 month old thread. It's very possible that the OP isn't monitoring it any longerAww thanks for pointing this out. Would you happen to know if offers reset if you app again?

FICO scores used for mortgage - and where to obtain them

So would I just do the FICO Standard Purchase and select Equifax and Experian and that would show me the EQ Beacon 5.0 and Experian V2SM scores that mortgage lenders pull? Just curious as the ones I get through banks listed in my sig are drastically different from the one a lender pulled - they said mine is 740 but wouldn't give me more information or show me the print out.

The FICO scores used for mortgages Equifax Beacon® 5.0Experian®/Fair Isaac Risk Model V2SMTransUnion FICO® Risk Score, Classic 04These are sometimes listed on the tri-merge mortgage report as follows: Equifax/FICO classic V5 FACTAExperian/Fair Isaac (Ver. 2)Transunion/FICO Classic (04)Note: they have been commonly referred to on the myFICO forums and elsewhere as: EQ 04EX 98TU 04 Availablility Equifax: myFICO Equifax FICO Standard purchase, or FICO 3 Report View purchase. Equifax Score Power purchase. DCU provides this score monthly to it's membershipExperian: myFICO Experian FICO Standard purchase, or FICO 3 Report View purchase. PSECU provides this score monthly to it's membership.Transunion: myFICO Transunion FICO Standard purchase, or FICO 3 Report View purchase. Updated 3/10/15 - addition of Transunion (yay!) and some clarifications

Balance dropped, score dropped. FICO scores a mystery.

They only reason to pay for the service of credit monitoring here on myFICO is so you have some idea of where you stand when you apply for any type of credit or loan. All the information about understanding FICO scoring is all cookie cutter garbage that you can read on any other "credit monitoring" service. And the people that work for myFICO have no idea what they are talking about either. They just repeat the same cookie cutter garbage I was just mentioning. I really hope they are providing their "services" for free, because if they receive any kind of compensation, it is undeserved. My statement balance on my American Express Everyday card went from $50 to $0 and my scores dropped by 11, 12, and 17 points (Equifax, TransUnion and Experian.) I brought the statement balance back up to $50 the VERY next month. Did my scores recover the lost points I just lost a month ago? No. And I am sure all these "credit experts" will say, "something else in your report must have changed." That is code for, "I have no idea what happened, I am just as clueless as you why your score changed the way it did." The precise formula for generating your FICO score is a well guarded secret. It is the same formula used in determining battle damage to your characters in the old Sega Master System game Phantasy Star. Sometimes when attacked, your character would lose 6 health points, other times 80 health points, and even other times 3/4ths of your total health, and so on and so on. This is how FICO scoring works. The formula basically goes, OOGA BOOGA, OOGA BOOGA, this is your updated score. The only advice on this site (again which you can find on EVERY other credit monitoring service) that is worth anything is what responsible credit habits you should be practicing. Other than that, just hope for the best. Your score is a mystery, and it always will be.

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What difference does it make if there are any negatives on my report? I lost points for doing something negative, which is bringing my balance to zero, than returning it back to its previous balance. THAT IS ALL I DID. I thought time heals all wounds when it comes to credit. Any credit missteps I might have had taken should be corrected with time. I really don't know how to make this any clearer. Nothing in my report changed except TIME. If I have two dollars in my bank account, and spend one dollar, then deposit one dollar, I should have now have TWO dollars AGAIN. ?????????????????I understand what Beavakos is saying here and we all get it. Most of us love analyzing data which is why we are here after we've already cleaned up our reports and greatly increased our scores. Again, I understand how Beavakos feels - it is said time and again that UTIL has no memory and what is lost due to UTIL will be regained - well, not always true. Looking strictly at the data two things changed on Beavakos' report: 30 days were added to age and UTIL went from something above 0% to 0%, then back again and yet Beavakos' score did not fully recoup the loss. The reason for this, I think, is very clear - we do not know as much as we think we know about FICO or any other scoring algorithm. If I lost 10 points for going from 5% UTIL down to 0% UTIL but then gained those 5 points back by raising my UTIL to 5% again then scoring algorithm's are not as complicated as they are made out to be and are thus not worth paying for. The previous scenario is simple math and if indeed it was only that I should be able to retest that hypothesis time and again and get the same exact results - not happening. That said, I do not believe that scoring is a crap shoot or something only a witch doctor can understand. It is a complicated mathematical equation that has 100's, if not 1000's, of factors all having a different weight at a different time and I believe there is no one that can determine with 100% accuracy the effect any one factor, forget about multiple factors, will have on your score. Not even the people who wrote the code would know as no one person wrote the whole code. We should probably stop getting so frustrated with how our scores react to the different changes in our reports. The reason we get upset is that we think this is some simple black and white game and it's not. It is very complicated and we will never know what we want to know to the accuracy level we want to know it. What's important is we know what hurts our score to a high degree and what helps our score to a high degree. Take care of all those things we know about and your score will go up; don't take care of those things and your score will go down. After that it is just a game we play to see how we can get to 800...

Fico interview questions and Real time tickets with resoving details

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hi sap gurus
i have done sap-fico iam in job trails. can any body help me Fico interview questions and Real time tickets with resoving details
regards
prasad.v
Edited by: chinna prasad on Jun 5, 2008 4:10 PM

Hello Prasad,
Before attending interviews.....First you need to understand general things like CV writing, projects, sub modules etc., you should be gain knowledge on these concepts then you can move further.
1. CV 2.Projects 3.your strenths in sap (reading..reading...reading....practice...practice...practice)
2.you please interact with your friends who is on trails, then you can get more information like interview process, methodology, technical etc.,
I am sending some real time interview tech questions which will useful for you.
Questions:
1.When tickets are raised by end users who will give priority? After resolve the tickets who will close the status?
2.In real time at a time how many normal periods, special periods, MM periods we can open?
3.What is client dependant & Independent?
4.How to transport configuration settings from one client to another client or production client, which tools we can use for transport?
5.Why we donu2019t assign business area to company code?
6.What is the difference between General GL A/c, Control A/c, Reconciliation A/c & Offsetting A/c?
Answers:
1.The priority is generally decided by the Coordinator on the client side. After tickets are resolved, they will have to be closed by the coordinator on the customer site
2. In FI as many as you wants. In MM only 2 (current month + previous
3.Certain tables and customizations made in one client will affect the other clients also - then it is cross client i.e, client dependent. While if the changes made in one client has no impact on the other client - it is said to be client independent
4.Transports from one server to the other can be made with the help of transport requests. When a configuration is done the system generates a request number. First release the task and then release the request. Use TC-SE10 / SE09, SE09: workbench transport; SE10: customizing transport. But currently no such difference actually exists.
5.because in case of multiple company codes, same business area can be used across company codes. Business area is cross company code, means it is not confined to one company code thatu2019s why we don't assign BA to any of the company codes. It is client dependant, not company code dependant. We can pass values from one company code to any of the BA in that client.
6.General GL Account are those used for standard posting like for example Income and Expenses Accounts
- Control Account are basically used for reconciliation between modules like FI and CO, to ensure that both the modules are in sync.
- Reconciliation Account are those specific covering ADK (A-Assets, D-Customer, K-Vendor). For example a Customer Master would be mapped to a Bills Receivable Reconciliation Account and any transaction that needs to be posted are done against the customer code.
- Offsetting Account are used for variety of reasons and few examples are Intercompany Postings, at the time of Implementation when TB and Balance sheet are uploaded would be offsetted against a dummy account.
All the best.....dont forget and pl assign points if useful and if u have any querries pl revert back
thanks
Anil

Can we send pre-test score (Pre-test question slide) and post test score (Question slide) both in lms from captivate?

can we send pre-test score (Pre-test question slide) and post test score (Question slide) both in lms from captivate?

Pretest score normally is not sent to the LMS. However it is stored in a system variable, you could use JS to send it.

Fico model questions

Can some help me to get fico model questions..

Hi
Some of the FICO Q's are as follows:-
1. I have created GL master without selection open item management and I have posted business transactions to that GL. Now client wants to change that GL to open item management. is it possible...how?
2. While creating asset master we have two options. One is using asset class and another one is using existing asset master. Here the question is what default values to be provided by asset class and existing asset master to newly created asset master?
3. What is the role of FI consultant in FI-SD integration?
4. Give some examples of GL accounts that should be posted automatically through the system and how is this defined in the system.
5. What is an Account group and where all is it used?
6. What is a field status group?
7. What is a Financial Statement Version?
8. How are input and output taxes taken care of in SAP?
9. What are Validations and Substitutions?
10. Is it possible to maintain plant wise different GL codes?
11. Is Business area at company code Level?
12. What are the different scenarios under which a Business Area or a Profit Center may be defined?
13. What are the problems faced when a Business area is configured?
14. Which is the default exchange rate type which is picked up for all SAP transactions?
15. Is it possible to configure the system to pick up a different exchange rate type for a particular transaction?
16. What are the Customizing prerequisites for document clearing?
17. Explain the importance of the GR/IR clearing account.
18. How is Vendor Invoice payments made?
19. How do you configure the automatic payment program?
20. Explain the entire process of Invoice verification from GR to Invoice verification in SAP with accounting entries?
21. How are Tolerances for Invoice verification defined?
22. Can we change the reconciliation account in the vendor master? If so, and how? What is the impact on the old balance?
23. What is the difference between primary and secondary cost elements?
24. What is the difference between Assessments and distributions?
25. What is the difference between profit center and profitability analysis?
26. What is the difference statistical order and real orders in internal orders?
27. What is statistical key figure?
28. What is the difference between Cost center and internal orders?
The above are only a few. If you browse throughe you will come across various sites providing SAP FICO questions.
Regards
Phani

Our Forums' FICO High Achievers: Who has at least one FICO Score of 760 or above?

I've noticed that some Forum members have improved their scores, and now have at least one FICO score of 760 or above. Others, have had 760+ scores longer. This is not a contest or competition to see who has the highest FICO scores. Rather, I'd like to see which Forum members are FICO High Achievers. Who has at least one FICO Score of 760 or above?
Message Edited by psychic on 04-02-2008 02:59 AM

Good thread Psy, I have been close monitoring this forum in hoping to one day reach 800. From my previous posts, my fico scores been from mid 650's to now 750-760 on TU,EX, and EQ. These changes reflect from only a month that I started to monitor my scores. Since 650's, a month ago, I have since removed 1 late payment, got my util to down to 14% with activities showing on 9 out of 16 c.c.'s, and finished my payment on a leased car. I took a 10 point loss on TU, 6 point loss on EX and 4 point loss on EQ for using a zero balance c.c. few weeks back. Just wondering tho, if I got my util to 1-3%, what kind of increase I could see on my scores...I did the simulator but the point increase doesn't seem to be accurate since it doesn't take in to consideration that I will have most of my c.c. reporting a zero balance except for 1 or 2 accounts so I can maximize my points. I still have a c.c. from BofA that I opened up last September that shows as new account but I'm hoping that it will be removed from the negative factor to boost me up in few more points... I just want to be safely over 760's to maximize my interest when I'm ready to buy my first house. But 800+ would be just dandy.

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