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 is a consolidated balance sheet? okay people
this is a tale of two balance sheets it was the best of times right here and all [Lemonade stand balance sheet appears]
that cash no debt,, yeah and it was the worst of times and pretty much the
opposite and then one magical mergy day the two companies possessing these
two divergent balance sheets decided to you know merge it was a lovely ceremony [Bride and groom holding hands]
the bride wore white the groom stepped on the glass so then the balance sheets
were consolidated that is they were merged or combined or fully brought
together liabilities plus liabilities assets plus assets so the few dollars in
cash here in the worst of times balance sheet
well that was tacked on to the cash in the best of times balance sheet and the
same happened with long term liabilities and short and eventually after the
wedding night was you know consummated these two balance sheets had merged and [Man and girl standing by their lemonade stands]
consolidated and looked like this and that's what happens when companies merge
everything including their balance sheets consolidate let's hope they
generate lots of tiny cash flows and credits in the future....Mazel Tov
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