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                                                                      EXHIBIT 24


                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

         Each director and/or officer of CheckFree Corporation (the
"Corporation") whose signature appears below hereby appoints Peter J. Kight,
Mark A. Johnson, and Curtis A. Loveland as the undersigned's attorneys or any
of them individually as the undersigned's attorney, to sign, in the
undersigned's name and behalf and in any and all capacities stated below, and
to cause to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission"), the Corporation's Annual Report on Form 10-K (the "Form 10-K")
for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1997, and likewise to sign and file with the
Commission any and all amendments to the Form 10-K, and the Corporation hereby
also appoints such persons as its attorneys-in-fact and each of them as its
attorney-in-fact with like authority to sign and file the Form 10-K and any
amendments thereto granting to each such attorney-in-fact full power of
substitution and revocation, and hereby ratifying all that any such
attorney-in-fact or the undersigned's substitute may do by virtue hereof.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands this 8th day of
August, 1997.


Signature                                   Title


/s/ Peter J. Kight                          Chairman of the Board of Directors,
- ----------------------------                President, and Chief
    Peter J. Kight                          Executive Officer


/s/ Mark A. Johnson                         Vice Chairman,
- -----------------------------               Corporate Development and
    Mark A. Johnson                         Marketing, Director


/s/ James S. Douglass                       Executive Vice President and
- -----------------------------               Chief Financial Officer
    James S. Douglass


/s/ Gary A. Luoma, Jr.                      Vice President,
- -----------------------------               Chief Accounting Officer and
    Gary A. Luoma, Jr.                      Assistant Secretary


/s/ William P. Boardman                     Director
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    William P. Boardman


/s/ George R. Manser                        Director
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     George R. Manser


/s/ Eugene F. Quinn                         Director
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     Eugene F. Quinn


/s/ Jeffrey M. Wilkins                      Director
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     Jeffrey M. Wilkins