Gabriela Walsh is a Certified Educator in Personal Finance® and a personal finance editor at Red Ventures. Her previous work experience includes various editorial positions at FinanceBuzz. She ...

Credit cards and debit cards look almost exactly alike but are actually quite different. Money you spend or withdraw using a debit card comes straight out of your bank account – you’re spending your ...

If you're new to credit cards, the jargon and acronyms can be intimidating. TPG can help you demystify the terms, decide which credit card is best for you, and show you the best ways to earn and ...

When you break out your plastic payment at checkout, generally the cashier or online payment portal makes no distinction between a credit card, a debit card or a prepaid debit card. All three carry a ...

Renting a car can be convenient, but choosing how to pay for it can impact your overall costs. Most rental agencies accept both credit and debit cards, but the financial implications differ. While one ...

When you’re shopping, and you’ve got everything you were looking for and are at the till, you might just pick a card to pay without much thought. But all cards are not the same. Here we explain how ...

Brett Surbey is a corporate paralegal and writer based out of Alberta. His work has appeared in Publishers Weekly, Thrive Insider, and various academic journals. He lives with his wife and two ...

If you run your debit card as credit, it will likely delay the money being taken from your checking account by a few days. Choosing credit instead of entering your debit card's PIN can help minimize ...

Accounting involves reporting financial events and transactions. The double-entry recording system captures a more reliable picture of a business' net worth because it assumes that a single event or ...

An income statement shows a company's profit and loss over a given period of time, explains the Corporate Finance Institute. It contains all the revenues that the business has and subtracts from that ...

A debit card is a card connected to your checking account, using the funds you have to make purchases. A credit card is connected to a line of credit, carrying a balance each month based on the ...