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When I look at my myFICO reports, it adds up all the accounts (both open and closed) for the number of accounts. Then it adds up accounts with balances. Is it these 2 numbers that are used in FICO scoring when they come up with how many of your accounts report balances? Or are they looking at open accounts against open accounts with balances? The report never sums up number of active open accounts.
What is the purpose of adding up ALL of your open/closed accounts that report on the CR then?
The total accounts is used as the denominator in the average age of accounts calculation, which includes all accounts, open and closed.
I also speculate that total TLs in one's credit file would also be used in determining a consumer's scoring bracket, but that is kinda a deep mystery.
I seems logical that % with balance would include those accounts that are currently showing a balance divided by the numer of accounts currently being scored for % util.
But I am not sure........ experts will chime in!