Patent ID: 7419090

Claim:
A management apparatus provided detachably from a cash cassette for managing the cash cassette storing bills or coins for cash transactions with users at an automatic teller machine, said cash cassette comprising: an error information recording area for recording identification information identifying a type of error in the event of occurrence of the error, and a count information recording area for recording count information indicating the number of bills or coins expected to be in said cash cassette, said management apparatus comprising: an error determination unit for determining, based on the identification information acquired from said error information recording area, whether the error occurred is of the kind that could cause a difference between the count information in said count information recording area and the number of bills or coins in said cash cassette; and a count information output unit, which outputs an instruction that management staff should count the number of bills or coins in said cash cassette on condition that said error determination unit determines that such a type of error has occurred, which acquires and outputs the count information from said count information recording area on condition that said error determination unit determines that such a type of error has not occurred.