By Rick Johnson
I hate to pay bills! It's not the fact that that I owe the money, I believe in paying my debts. It's just the repeated drudgery of getting the bill in the mail, opening it, deciding how much to pay, writing out the check, addressing the envelope, finding a stamp, and then remembering to mail the darn thing on time. Then we repeat the same routine month after month.
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Computers have been handling money for a long time and are well suited for the job. Banks and other financial institutions have entrusted their entire accounting systems to sophisticated computer networks for decades. Your bank sends you a monthly paper statement. Your stockbroker or mutual fund company keeps all your transactions on computers but sends you a paper statement.
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