Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Use the Small Business Owner’s Personal Credit Score to Judge the Business’s Credit Worthiness

The credit score company Experian has found a correlation existing between the personal credit scores of small business owners and the credit worthiness of the owners’ business.

Evaluating the credit worthiness of a small company can be difficult.  Because perhaps the business has only been in existence for a short time, and for other reasons, little, or no, data is available to judge the business's credit worthiness.  However, the owner may, often does, have a long personal credit history.  Based on Experian’s findings, an owner’s personal credit score correlates well with the owner’s payments of his/her business bills.   This gives vendors (other small companies) a good opportunity for being able to judge a small business credit risk, when no other data exists.  Ask the owner of the small business you are selling to for a copy of his/her personal credit score and use this data to evaluate the risk of selling to the person’s company. 


Experian’s correlation conclusions were based on a study of thousands of its records dealing with small business owners.  You can read more about this study by clicking here (Section III) (PDF file).

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