year end work

Annual balance sheet was done on december 31st in those days.Everything was manual. Interest application ,balancing of all ledgers and tallying was done many days beforehand. Loan instalments paid after calculating interest was kept in SL and being credited after balance sheet.Window dressing was very popular but we used to get circulars and strict instructions not to indulge in them. Branches which reached their targets used to tranfer their excess funds to those branches which failed to reach targets. For that particular yearend ie 1978 KC had come in the morning to my house. It was Sunday and the nextday was dec 31st. He told me that few of the employees went to branch to assist management complete balance sheet in time. We went to the branch. THey made me write transfer waste and tally it. Slips were coming unendingly.Figures were being altered constantly.I was not knowing with what figures I had to tally the different heads especially minor subsidiaries.They called us but did not make any food arrangements.When I asked KC as to what Ishould do , he took me to nearby hotel for lunch. Meals was very nice there.After comig back I commented ABOUT not providing food for us by the manager.So , in the evening his wife prepared lemon rice and sent it to us.

THe tragedy was there was no use of our working that Sunday. Again they changed the figures by Monday morning and again we had to tally everything.