The Treasurer's Report (1928) is a comedy sketch, made into a short film, written and performed by Robert Benchley.
The film, made in the then-new Fox Movietone, documents an assistant treasurer of an organization struggling to present its yearly report.
[1] A number of Round Tablers were contributing new material for the revue and Benchley wanted to do his part, but as often happened he procrastinated.
According to fellow Round Tabler Donald Ogden Stewart, Benchley didn't start writing the sketch until about a week before the revue, and then only scribbled rough notes on the back of an envelope[2] (Benchley would not commit a full script to paper until 1930[3]).
Benchley's disjointed parody so delighted those in attendance that Irving Berlin hired Benchley in 1923 to deliver the Report as part of Berlin's Music Box Revue for $500 a week.