Understanding Your Credit
The overall goal of this course is to put YOU, the participant, in charge of your financial future. CAAB’s goals over the next 5 weeks (August 2 - September 6) are to:
- help you to understand the relationship between money, wealth, and financial independence;
- provide you with information and tools to help you understand your relationship with money and manage it better;
- assist you in developing habits that will enable you to control your spending today so you can save for future expenses;
- educate you about your rights as a consumer and how to exercise those rights.
Lesson 3: Understanding Credit
At the end of this lesson participants should be able to:
- Understand the basics of credit
- Categorize their own credit debt into the most efficient payoff plans
- Analyze/read their own credit report
- Understand what goes into their credit score
- List 3 ways to increase their credit score
- Identify ways to protect themselves from identity theft and fraud
Date: 08–16–2008
Start Time: 10:00 AM
End Time: 12:00 PM
Location: 1801 K Street NW, Suite M100 (Due to construction, enter on L Street, next to Borders)
Agency: Capital Area Asset Builders
Phone: 202-419-1443
Email: seminars@caab.org
Website: www.caab.org