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The Accounting Pattern consists of the following components:

• Accounting information: it allows the user to view accounting information of available resources.

• Billing: it allows the user to view detailed accounting information with calculated prices. It is possible to check the given information for different time periods and in per-resource manner or per job manner.
• Payment: it allows users to use 3 ^rd -party Payment Services, for example in order to carry out a credit card payment. The data gathered by the billing component and the information about the user are both displayed to the user for approval / amendments, before the actual payment is made.

 
The starting point of the Accounting Pattern is always viewing accounting information about resources. If the user is interested in billing information about a specific resource, a specific job or a given period of time, he / she can proceed to the Billing component. After viewing the billing information, the user can be forwarded to external Payment Services.