"Relying on credit card debt is very expensive and makes these businesses financially unstable," said Scott, assistant professor of economics and finance at the Leon Hess School of Business at Monmouth University in New Jersey.
Yet almost 6 out of 10, or 57.9%, of the nearly 5,000 firms in the study used credit card debt to get started. The report looked at credit card use by the businesses in 2004, the year they all got going, through 2006.
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