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Information Technology in the Banking World


With or without a software program, officers analysis of financial and operating statements will require assessing for such risks as the following: inadequate or declining working capital position; excessive volume or negative trend in receivables; unfavorable level or negative trend in inventory; increased aging of receivables, or a marked slowing in receivables; drastic increase in volume of payables; repeated and increasing renewals of carry-over operating debt; unfavorable trends in sales and profits; rapidly expanding expenses; heavy debt-to-worth level and/or deterioration in this relationship; large dividend or other payments without adequate or reasonable earnings retention; and net worth enhancements resulting solely from reappraisal in the value of fixed assets (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
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             Increased Chance of Human Error.
             Without deployment of a software program that organizes several years of statistical data into comparative financial and operating results or identifies specific credit weaknesses within the portfolio, officers would appear to have a more difficult time in identifying the aforementioned specific trends or weaknesses if the analysis required the officer to review each year's financial statements separately in order to determine historical trends and manually calculate various ratios. This manual process would appear to take more time in manually calculating various ratios, which could also be calculated incorrectly due to human error. Specific weaknesses within the credit line may even be missed since there is no management information system tool alerting the loan officer to red flag indicators (i.e. ratios outside recommended parameters). Other indicators could be incorporated within the software program such as statistical averages of similar size and type of businesses as the entity requesting funds. This comparison/peer analysis would seem extremely beneficial for those banks lending to new business ventures.


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