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Question on Acct Age

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Question on Acct Age

Hello All!

As of June 1st, my oldest account is 6.9yrs the average age is 4 years and my youngest account is 7 months. I just applied for another CC acct, when it shows up on my reports does anyone know what my AAOA will be at that point? Or can someone give me the formula to figure it out. Thank you!
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Re: Question on Acct Age

AAoA stands for average age of accounts.  The way you calculate the average of 15 numbers is to add all 15 numbers together and then divide by 15.  If you are averaging 8 numbers, you add those 8 numbers together and divide by 8.  Etc.

 

To compute AAoA you want to take the age (in months) of each of your accounts and add that together, and then divide by the total number of accounts.  That gives you the AAoA in months.  To make that a figure in years, divide the AAoA in months by 12.

 

I encourage you to do that by hand (or by using a spreadsheet) so you can watch how it works and so you can confirm that the AAoA really is what you think it is.

 

Then do it again but you'll have one more account of month 0.  That will show you the AAoA impact after the new card appears.

 

A short cut is this.  If you have n accounts now, and an AAoA of X, then the new AAoA after the new account is added will be (n * X) / (n + 1).  But it's good to do it the long way I gave you above first, so you can really see what is going on.

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Re: Question on Acct Age

Thanks a lot for explaining it so well. I’ll keep a spreadsheet, great idea
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