| 31
--------------------------+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----
Total | 60 | 200 | 15 | 245 | 122 | 138 | 87 | 173
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|Means used in accounting by Negro
| business enterprises.
--------------------------+--------------+-----------+-------+-------
| Mechanical | Other | |
|cash-register.| records. | |
Class of +------+-------+-----+-----+ |
establishment. | Yes. | No. | Yes.| No. |Unknown|Totals
--------------------------+------+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------
Barber shops | 10 | 35 | 2 | 43 | 5 | 50
Brokers | -- | 16 | 5 | 11 | -- | 16
Coal, wood and ice | -- | 13 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 19
Dressmaking and millinery | -- | 8 | 1 | 7 | -- | 8
Employment agencies | -- | 14 | 14 | -- | -- | 14
Express and moving vans | -- | 10 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 12
Groceries | 7 | 28 | 2 | 33 | 1 | 36
Hairdressing, etc. | -- | 5 | 5 | -- | 3 | 8
Hotels and lodging houses | -- | 10 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 17
Pool and billiard rooms | 5 | 5 | -- | 10 | -- | 10
Printers | -- | 5 | 2 | 3 | -- | 5
Restaurants and | | | | | |
lunch rooms | -- | 12 | -- | 12 | 14 | 26
Saloons and cafes | 4 | 1 | -- | 5 | -- | 5
Tailoring, pressing, etc. | -- | 21 | 7 | 14 | 3 | 24
Undertakers | -- | 11 | 11 | -- | -- | 11
Miscellaneous | 2 | 38 | 11 | 29 | 8 | 48
--------------------------+------+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------
Total | 28 | 232 | 64 | 196 | 49 | 309
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4. CREDIT RELATIONSHIPS

The manner and care with which a firm keeps record of the business it
transacts is closely connected with its credit relations with the
buying and selling community. And both these determine to a large
extent its business operations. Considerable light was thrown