Description: This attribute indicates that accounting records are to be collected by the network for the various reasons: billing, test, study, auditing. The last of the parameters, force, indicates that accounting records are to be collected irrespective of other collection reasons. The force option is available for X.75 Gateways only. If none of these reasons are set, then accounting will be suppressed. To set a specific accounting collection reason, the reason is entered and the corresponding bit in the structure is set to a value of 1. To turn off a specific accounting collection reason, the reason is entered preceded with the '~' character, and the corresponding bit in the structure is set to a value of 0. The bit placement for the accounting collection reasons is as follows: Bit 0 - Bill Bit 1 - Test Bit 2 - Study Bit 3 - Audit Bit 4 - Force

Description of bits: bill(0) test(1) study(2) audit(3) force(4)