Balance Transfer Fee
Most commonly, a balance transfer fee is a fee charged by a credit card company to transfer a card's balance (i.e. the money you owe on that card), from one company to another.
Example: Seemingly daily, you receive in the mail an exclusive offer from Credit Card Company A to transfer your card balance from whatever card you currently have. The Card Company will charge you 0% on that transferred balance for 18 months. But there is a transfer fee of 3 to 5 percent of the transferred amount. You'd only want to do this if you a) desperately needed the cash and had to transfer dough to make room for more bills coming due; or b) because there was such a huge spread in interest rates on the various cards that the math made sense. Otherwise, credit cards exist to be paid off.
Note the really nice corporate jets at Amex, Visa, and Mastercard. Somebody pays for ‘em (and likely not on a credit card).
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Finance a la shmoop what are aging receivables and an allowance for doubtful accounts
A lot of people don't realize this but that was the original title of Moby [Book title changes to Moby Dick]
Dick yeah all right My aching receivables that's your
balance sheet talking well wine is about the only thing that gets better with age [Wine poured into a glass]
and even it has its limits there yeah aliens go ahead and pour yourself a
glass all right when receivables a balance sheet item
that lives right here get old they - generally speaking get bad note how much
higher the probability of non collection called deadbeat-ism gets as the age of
the receivables increases well generally speaking bills that are gonna get paid
generally get paid fast or at least on time and those that don't have to be
tracked well best guesses matter in accounting so coming to an actual
predicted rational and reasonable number is a big deal and you can see that in [Man discussing receivables]
this case the spread between the legally owed money and the amount likely to be
collected is a pretty big spread well the decline hits the assets side of the
balance sheet in the form of accounts receivable here being lower and [Accounts receivable column highlighted]
eventually when a bad debt is finally recognized as a deadbeat bad debt never
to be collected and is dead dead dead well then it simply gets written off on
the income statement or well said another way it goes away as a sale that
never happened so that's aging receivables in a nutshell and yeah this [Aging receives inside a nut]
is the one time you don't need to respect the elderly [Man trips over elderly man and gives thumbs up]
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