ON THE ECONOMIC STUDIES CONNECTED WITH THE USE OF ELECTRONIC MONEY IN UKRAINE
The article deals with peculiarities that must be taken into account while conducting forensic economic examinations connected with studying financial and credit transactions with the use of electronic money. Electronic money is a monetary obligation of the issuer in an electronic form that is stored on an electronic medium in the user’spossession. This medium can be a microprocessor card, the user’s computer, a server of the electronic money clearance system where the user’s electronic money is stored, etc. In the electronic money clearance systems bank accounts are used only when the money is debited or withdrawn from the system. At the same time these bank accounts are the issuer’s and not the user’s accounts. When electronic money is issued the user’s traditional money is debited to the issuer’s bank account. When the electronic money is used in payment, traditional money is written off the issuer S bank account and is paid to the bearer. The article provides a list of normative and legislative acts regulating the main aspects of conducting the studies.