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  • Standard Credit-Card Processing Software

    Standard Credit-Card Processing Software

    MANY OF MY FRIENDS and acquaintances are still reluctant to use their credit-card numbers on the Internet, even to buy from well-known merchants over secure connections, and even when their credit-card issuers offer full protection against fraudulent charges. This side of the Internet fraud problem has received much more attention than the other side: that Internet merchants have no really effective way to protect themselves against credit-card fraud. Standard credit-card processing software will give the

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    Essay Length: 742 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: July 15, 2009 By: Vika
  • Credit Card Limit Laws - What Are the Current Laws?

    Credit Card Limit Laws - What Are the Current Laws?

    CREDIT CARD LIMIT LAWS WHAT MEASURES CAN BE PUT IN PLACE TO TRY TO SLOW THE SPIRALLING GROWTH OF CREDIT CARD DEBT IN STUDENTS? WHAT ARE THE CURRENT LAWS? There are current laws that dictate what financial institutions should base their criteria for credit card limit increases on. The UCCC ( Uniform Consumer Credit Code ) is a government body that was created in response to business and consumer concerns as a national initiative to

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    Essay Length: 714 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Use of Credit Cards

    Use of Credit Cards

    The use of credit cards is much more dangerous than use of checks or cash. Paying with cash is very easy; for knowing how much money is available and how much can be spent makes it very hard to get into debt. When paying with a check the process is a bit trickier; the exact balance has to be kept on the account at all time. Knowing what this balance is and continuously replenishing

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    Essay Length: 383 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Are Credit Cards Really Helpful?

    Are Credit Cards Really Helpful?

    ARE CREDIT CARDS REALLY HELPFUL? Money has always been an issue of extreme importance to everyone and especially to business-minded people who strive on having more and more of it in everyway possible. Ways to deal with finances in all its aspects have preoccupied the minds and legal thinkers of financial companies all over the world. In the late 1960's, banks started introducing credit cards and this started a "credit card boom" that is continuing

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    Essay Length: 814 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Strategy: The U.K. Credit Card Industry in The Late 1980's

    Strategy: The U.K. Credit Card Industry in The Late 1980's

    1. Why had the UK credit card industry been so profitable in the 1980s? Which factors were the greatest threats to continued profitability? At the beginning of the credit card history in the UK there was only one player, Barclays Bank, which started operating the card business in 1966. It didn’t seem a profitable business at the beginning but the major banks were concerned that due to the use of the credit card, the logo

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    Essay Length: 1,070 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Max
  • Credit Cards Fraud

    Credit Cards Fraud

    Credit Cards Fraud Nowadays, computer technology is growing bigger and bigger. This tremendous and powerful improvement has its good and bad connotations. Credit cards are one popular invention of the computer era. According to www.1stamericancardservice.com, a credit card is a plastic card bearing an account number assigned to a cardholder with a credit limit that can be used to purchase goods and services and to obtain cash disbursements on credit, for which a cardholder is

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    Essay Length: 412 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: regina
  • Credit Card Secrets

    Credit Card Secrets

    It is no secret that today’s SOCIETY relies on plastic money. A simple way to purchase things now and pay for it later. But why do so many people carry credit cards? Many carry credit cards in case of emergencies, your car breaks down, a sudden trip to the emergency room. Some use credit cards just to CONFORM to the SOCIAL NETWORK of today’s SOCIETY. Everyone has to have one, without credit it is harder

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    Essay Length: 729 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Janna
  • Don’t Let Credit Cards Rule Your Life

    Don’t Let Credit Cards Rule Your Life

    Don't Let Credit Cards Rule Your Life Did you know that the average credit-card holder in this country has ten cards, and the average family owes over $7,500? That’s a record. And did you know that one dollar of every three in consumer debt is in credit cards? The fact is, credit card debt is rising faster than Americans' income, and more folks are falling behind in their payments. So today I’m going to look

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    Essay Length: 895 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Wendy
  • College Students - Spending Habits and Credit Card Ownership

    College Students - Spending Habits and Credit Card Ownership

    College Students’ Spending Habits and Credit Card Ownership Being in college will earn any student a degree after however many years its takes to attain the degree of said student’s choosing. Along with that degree comes an innumerable amount of pressure dealing with new things, making deadlines for classes, and how to best use the small amount of money students get from part-time jobs. When dealing with money, college students want whatever item, trivial or

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    Essay Length: 1,720 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: March 20, 2010 By: Top
  • Credit-Card Fraud

    Credit-Card Fraud

    FRAUD MANY OF MY FRIENDS and acquaintances are still reluctant to use their credit-card numbers on the Internet, even to buy from well-known merchants over secure connections, and even when their credit-card issuers offer full protection against fraudulent charges. This side of the Internet fraud problem has received much more attention than the other side: that Internet merchants have no really effective way to protect themselves against credit-card fraud. Standard credit-card processing software will

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    Essay Length: 742 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 19, 2010 By: Mike
  • Credit Cards: Not So Evil

    Credit Cards: Not So Evil

    There is much controversy about whether college students should take on debt to finance their education. Many people disagree because numbers show that college students' debts are increasing and are sometimes very difficult to pay off. All five authors of the articles we read feel credit cards and loans are something college students should avoid. Only a few people mentioned in these articles believe otherwise, and these people are correct. College students should take on

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    Essay Length: 890 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: June 5, 2010 By: Vika
  • Critically Evaluation of Porter's Five Forces, Value Chain Analysis, Balanced Scored Card

    Critically Evaluation of Porter's Five Forces, Value Chain Analysis, Balanced Scored Card

    Critically evaluation of Porter's five forces, Value Chain Analysis, Balanced Scored Card Given the demands of today's competitive and dynamic environment, it is quite challenging to understand strategic issues facing organizations and develop the capability for long term organizational success. This report aims to present a critically analysis of three frameworks across organizations: Porter's Five Forces, Value Chain and Balanced Scorecard. Such critical evaluation includes identifying the benefits and limitations of three frameworks and considering

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    Essay Length: 4,269 Words / 18 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2008 By: Victor
  • Introduction to Debt Policy

    Introduction to Debt Policy

    When a firm grows, it needs capital, and that capital can come from debt or equity. Debt has two important advantages. First, interest paid on Debt is tax deductible to the corporation. This effectively reduces the debt’s effective cost. Second, debt holders get a fixed return so stockholders do not have to share their profits if the business is extremely successful. Debt has disadvantages as well, the higher the debt ratio, the riskier the company,

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    Essay Length: 1,800 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Bred
  • U.S. Foreign Debt Shows Its Teeth as Rates Climb

    U.S. Foreign Debt Shows Its Teeth as Rates Climb

    Americans have enjoyed being the biggest consumers within the last decade. They have bought up foreign goods with foreign credit. Recently, they are being pressed to change their spending habits and start paying off their debt. With American’s trade deficit and foreign debt, the recent rise of interest rates have brought concern to a problem that has been persisting for over a decade. Trade deficit occur when countries consume more imported goods and services of

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    Essay Length: 1,153 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Jack
  • Compare Malcolm X and the Debt

    Compare Malcolm X and the Debt

    INTRODUCTION This research paper seeks to review two books: The Debt: What America owes Black America by Randall Robinson and Malcolm X by Alex Haley. I will review each book individually recapping the main points and summarizing each one and then compare and contrast the different ideas and implications that were set forth in the book. I will point out the similarities such as the human suffering and struggle that each book recount but also

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    Essay Length: 3,528 Words / 15 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Tanzania and Morocco: Does Debt Relief Really Work?

    Tanzania and Morocco: Does Debt Relief Really Work?

    The G8 Summit met this past summer in Gleneagles, Scotland in July for a week long summit in order to address pressing world issues. The BBC describes the G8, “With no headquarters, budget or permanent staff, the Group of Eight is an informal but exclusive body whose members set out to tackle global challenges through discussion and action,” (Profile:G8). The forefront issue of the summit this year pushed especially by British Prime Minister, Tony Blair,

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    Essay Length: 4,664 Words / 19 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: July
  • Ghana - Drop the Debt

    Ghana - Drop the Debt

    The amount of debt in this world is rapidly rising and spreading. However, some countries have been facing this problem for a greater period of time. Ghana is a heavily indebted country and is gradually trying to redeem itself. A once proud nation and has been lost in the vast issue of debt that controls it. In the 15th Century the Portuguese arrived and found a large quantity of gold. After many years of being

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    Essay Length: 531 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Yan
  • Student Debt

    Student Debt

    INTRODUCTION This report examines the increasing trends in the amount of debt students are graduating with. The purpose of this report is to prove why these trends need to be stopped, and how they can be stopped. After viewing the statistics from 1993 to the present it will be obvious that student debt is not rising at a steady pace, but that its growth is leading to large financial burdens by many students. Recommendations are

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    Essay Length: 747 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • The Need for a National Id Card

    The Need for a National Id Card

    William Safire discusses the threat of a national identification card in his essay titled “The Threat of National ID.” He points out both the pros and cons to having a national ID. He makes very valid points to support the idea of not requiring a national ID, but his attacks to the side in favor of the ID card are too far stretching. He is reaching out to the worst possible outcomes of having

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    Essay Length: 717 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Monika
  • National Debt

    National Debt

    National Debt Who is to blame for amassing such debt in times of peace and relative prosperity, a debt that would have shamed our nation's founders? ALL OF US! First there was the Republican presidents of Ronald Reagan and George Bush who lacked simple economic sense, calculated their budgets more for political gain than for economic effect. While the Democrats controlling Congress who resisted the spending cuts and tax increases needed to balance the budget.

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    Essay Length: 313 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Monika
  • American Middle Class Debt

    American Middle Class Debt

    Introduction The American Middle Class is escorting the world into economic debt. What we are doing and what we should be doing are two completely different things. Debt is the number one cause of poverty worldwide. The American middle class is leading the way for the rest of the world as to how they should live their lives and spend their money, and we are doing a very poor job of it. With the rest

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    Essay Length: 1,337 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Convertible Debt

    Convertible Debt

    1. Convertible Debt Companies have to ways in raising money and financing their plans: issue debt or equity. Debt comes in the form of loans and equity in the form of shares. There is a wide range of methods for both ways, with different instruments and multiple options. In this study we will focus on debt and especially in convertible debt. A convertible debt is a loan that can convert to equity under certain circumstances,

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    Essay Length: 589 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Article Review - Big Debts Keep Law Grads out of Low-Paying Public Service Jobs”- James V. Grimaldi

    Article Review - Big Debts Keep Law Grads out of Low-Paying Public Service Jobs”- James V. Grimaldi

    http://www.ourpublicservice.org/pressroom/pressroom_show.htm?doc_id=147617 “Big Debts Keep Law Grads Out of Low-Paying Public Service Jobs”- James V. Grimaldi For many college students the idea of working in the public sector is fascinating. The thought of having first hand knowledge of how the United States government is run is an appeal to many; however it is not enough to include these students in the workforce. Perhaps the number one reason why many potential employees do no choose the

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    Essay Length: 741 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Steve
  • Use of Credit in the U.S.

    Use of Credit in the U.S.

    There are both pros and cons to spending with credit. A consumer must be responsible for their spending and plan ahead for the future. Many people are quickly swept with debt a short period after receiving a credit card. Other consumers are wise enough to control their spending and limit their purchases. For major purchases credit may be useful because it provides an immediate source of funds where as you might be saving for

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    Essay Length: 559 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Bank of Credit and Commerce International

    Bank of Credit and Commerce International

    BCCI CASE Introduction: On July 5, 1991, an incident that has been described as the biggest bank fraud in history came to a head when regulators in seven countries raided and took control of branch offices of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). Monetary losses from the scandal were huge, with estimates ranging from $10 billion to $17 billion though many billions have since been recovered for creditors by the banks liquidators, Deloitte

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    Essay Length: 2,386 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Mike

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