The regional superintendent is hereby given the power to require reports from the treasurer or any other officer of the district from which territory is taken to give it any information necessary for it to perform its functions hereunder and to require from time to time transfers of funds from one treasurer to another, or if the districts have a common treasurer from the funds held by such treasurer for one district to the funds held by such treasurer for the other district as may be necessary to give effect to the accounting herein provided for.