Bank Accounting Information System and Electronic Banking

Introduction Information technology has had as much impact on our society as the industrial revolution. In the information age, companies are finding that success or failure is increasingly dependent on their management and use of information. Therefore, companies need a good information system that enabled an efficient and effective use of information to give them more competitive advantage (Moscove, Simkin, & Bagranoff, 1999).
An information system is a set of interrelated subsystems that work together to collect, process, store, transform, and distribute information for planning, decisions making, and control. An information system need not be a computerized system, but the use of computer in information systems can improve the efficiency of information collection, processing, storing, transformation and distribution. An accounting information system (AIS) is the information subsystem within an organisation that accumulates information from the entity's various subsystems and communicates it to the organisation's information processing subsystem. The information processing subsystem is likely to be a separate department in the organisational entity that is responsible for computer hardware and software (Moscove, Simkin, & Bagranoff, 1999). The AIS has traditionally focused on collecting, processing, and communicating financial-oriented information to a company's external parties (such as investors, creditors, and tax agencies) and internal parties (principally management). Today, however, the AIS is concerned with non-financial as well as financial data and information.
In general, a bank's AIS has the same role as in other companies that is to provide financial and non-financial information to the company's external parties (such as investors, creditors, and tax agencies) and internal parties (principally management). However, due to the characteristics of banking business, banks' AIS have specific important features related to their liquidity management and

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