Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1915 — B. A. Vogel Suggests Plan Of Simplyfying State Books. [ARTICLE]

B. A. Vogel Suggests Plan Of Simplyfying State Books.

Momticello Journal.

B. A. Vogel, formerly deputy county auditor, now deputy to State Treasurer Bittler, who is in charge of the bookkeeping end of the office, has, by a good suggestion, assisted Treasurer Bittler in simplifying the old methods of dealing with state accounts. The Indianapolis papers thought so well of Mr. Vogel’s plan that they have each devoted considerable space to explain it. And Treasurer Bittler, who is a former banker, and naturally favorable to any plan that will simplify bookkeeping, readily adopted it and put it into practice. By Mr. Vogel’s plan, Treasurer Bittier can know at the close of each day what the financial status of the state is. So that the treasury department of the state is operated along similar •lines to a bank.l The state has 19 separate funds, of which the treasurer must keep record, and by Mr. Vogel’s system of daily balance sheets, an the form of small bank ledger, leaves, it is possible to know at the close of business each day just how each fund stands, and also the grant total balance of all money in the treasury.