Textbook Sleep #27: The Voucher System of Accounting

Welcome to Textbook Sleep, the Maximum-Strength Sleep Aid podcast that reads aloud boring public-domain textbooks to help you fall asleep.What a treat we have for you tonight. While in Textbook Sleep #11 we delved into the theory of accounting, now we get even more specific, more dull, more brain numbing. Who knows what the “voucher system” is? I don’t, and I doubt you do, either. Fortunately, you will not learn what is, as you will be sound asleep. I will not learn—I will make word sounds not but understand them. What constitutes a “joint-stock company” will remain a mystery to both of us. Tonight’s textbook, Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, and Business Administration was “prepared by a Corps of Auditors, Accountants, Attorneys, and Specialists in Business Methods and Management” in 1910. We read from the fourth of 10 volumes.But none of what I read will be on the quiz, because there is no quiz. There will also be no 18-page paper to turn in, no final exam.In the immortal words of T. Rex, let’s bang a gong, get it on. This recording will end quietly. Get full access to Pieces of Jim at jimnolan1.substack.com/subscribe