You have just been hired as an account representative for a large financial institution. Your supervisor shows you to your desk that contains a workstation. She explains that the workstation is part of a wide-area network connecting all of the bank’s offices through a client server system. All of the bank’s data are maintained in databases on servers and are accessed through a database management system. To obtain account information, you must log on to the network and use the bank’s account service program on your workstation to retrieve data from the database.

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What is the supervisor talking about? Explain the function of each part of the bank’s computer network. Why do most companies use computer networks for their accounting systems?