World Acceptance Corporation engages in small-loan consumer finance business in the United States and Mexico. The company's products include short-term and medium-term loans, as well as related credit insurance, and ancillary products and services to individuals. It primarily offers consumer installment loans. The company also provides income tax return preparation and electronic filing services. In addition, it markets and sells credit life, credit accident and health, credit property, and unemployment insurance products in connection with its loans; markets automobile club memberships to its borrowers; and markets electronic products and appliances to borrowers. Further, the company, through its subsidiary, ParaData Financial Systems, markets financial services data processing systems to financial services companies. It serves individuals with limited access to consumer credit from banks, credit unions, other consumer finance businesses, and credit card lenders. As of March 31, 2013, the company operated 1,203 offices in South Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Tennessee, Illinois, Missouri, New Mexico, Kentucky, Alabama, Wisconsin, and Indiana, as well as in Mexico. World Acceptance Corporation was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina.