METHOD FOR PAYING OUT EXPENSE

PURPOSE:To automatically execute the payment of expense demanded from a specific person or the payment of an applied temporary payment amount from his deposite account of an enterprise by using an IC card applied to the specific person. CONSTITUTION:After certifying the identity of an opplicant for temporary payment by a host computer 10 based upon an IC card 22 and a password number, an IC card terminal 20 checks an inputted amount to be requested as a temporary payment and/or a past paid amount, and when the amount is within a limit amount, receives the application for temporary payment from the applicant, writes payment data on the card 20 and certifies the payment of the amount. The applicant receives money from a cash dispenser 30 and transmits the payment data to a host computer 50 in a bank to draw the temporary payment amount from a deposit account. After the end of operation of the cash dispenser 30, the payment data are transmitted to the host computer 10 for processing the financial affairs of the enterprise and collated with calcualtion data obtained at the time of receiving the temporary payment to prepare temporary payment accounting information.