The Finance Commission had its usual annual meeting from 6- 9 October 2009 in the Generalate House in Rome. Besides the members of the Commission, this meeting was attended also by the Bursars of the Pallottine entities in India, Germany, Switzerland and France. The principle tasks of the meeting were the examination of the financial statements sent to the Generalate as well as that of the Generalate, the preparation of the proposal for the General Assembly on contributions to the Generalate and the conclusion of the “Manuel for the Bursars”. In addition, in order to concretise the formative objective of the meeting, some other specific themes were treated, such as the shares and global investments, the current Pallottine economic realities, the economic policies to be followed in different continents and the future of small entities.