“Your job is many-faceted. At times you must be bookkeeper, accountant, administrator, counselor, investor, legal representative, lawyer, and insurance agent.”
“Many of you have very little formal preparation for these tasks, even though you often perform them remarkably well. Few of you took courses in accounting. Few of you have degrees in economics. Most of you have learned what it means to be Provincial Treasurer because you accepted the job out of obedience and worked hard to figure out what it entailed.”
“Being a Provincial Treasurer today is much more complex than in the past. The world has become computerized, so economic transactions take place rapidly, especially in the field of investments. Society has become more litigious, so there are endless laws and bureaucratic procedures that at times frustrate even the most large-hearted man.”
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This article is part of the first issue of VINCENTIANA for 2003.
Other articles include
– Spirituality and Sense of Mission of the Provincial Treasurer (P. Lamblin)
– The Relationship between the Provincial Treasurer and the Visitor and his Council (J. Vergara)
– The Relationship between the Provincial Treasurer and the Local Treasurers. Formation of Local Treasurers (M. Oabel)
