Excerpt from The Examination of Insurance Companies a Series of Talks to the Members of His Office Staff On numerous occasions the members of my office staff have evidenced a desire to consult reference books which would enable them to obtain information on points connected with their examining and their auditing work; my inability to direct them to proper sources of information led me to institute a system of brief talks upon the topics connected with their work. During the summer of 1910 I was asked by the New York State Civil Service Commission to participate in the oral examination of candidates for the position of Assistant Examiner of the Insurance Department of the State of New York. Many of the answers given by the candidates indicated the same need for information which had been expressed by my own assistants. Department and company officials to whom I happened to mention these facts, suggested the advisability of putting these talks in some permanent form, so that they could be of use not only to the members of my own staff, but to Departmental Examiners and to assist the accounting departments of companies in the solution of the numerous problems which arise in connection with their annual statement work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.