Word: accountant
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...have an account with a major local bank, chances are you already have access to home banking. Undergraduates who have accounts through BankBoston (www.BankBoston.com) have undoubtedly already been inundated with information about the HomeLink system, for instance. The service and software are free, although there is a nominal monthly charge for electronic bill payment...
Checking your account balance is as easy as a keystroke. You can also check recent bank activity, sorted in dozens of ways. But the selling point of home banking, as the Packard Bell commercials enthuse, is bill payment...
...first time you pay a bill with HomeLink, you tell the system the company you're sending a payment to, their mailing address and pertinent information like your account number. From then on, whenever you want to send a payment to that creditor, you select them from a menu and tell HomeLink how much you want to send. Forget looking for stamps; BankBoston either transfers the funds electronically or mails the check itself...
...accessed by the keypad on your computer, with little mouse support and no graphics. Bank-Boston's promise to deliver a new, graphically-oriented version is almost a year late. But you can use HomeLink to transfer data between Quicken, the popular personal finance software package, and your account...
HomeLink and other packages like it are great if you have a bank account locally and just want to access it electronically. If you're really interested in Internet banking, however, you can now transact all your banking without ever seeing a banker, or even a bank branch...