Scope and Contents From the Series: Series II. Business Records documents the scope of the company's activities. It contains correspondence with agents, suppliers, and customers; invoices; bills of lading that list the merchandise, the vessel on which it was shipped, the master, the destination, and the customer; and day-to-day financial records, such as ledgers, daybooks, cashbooks, payroll books, and accounts of sales. The company's factory store or outlet is documented in the "Account of...