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1.3.2 Charging Element and Invoice Category Specifications

All charging elements used in the Rate Table must be defined
in the Charging Element Table and be associated with an
invoice category in the Invoice Category Table.

Each Charging Element Table entry specifies:

o  A computation code

o  A description of the computation code

o  The name of the variable in the data source that contains
   the quantity to be charged

o  The unit of measurement of the quantity

CA MICS Accounting and Chargeback comes with a default table
of invoice categories and a default table of computation
codes associated with these invoice categories.  These tables
should be sufficient to meet most needs, but you may want to
create additional computation codes or invoice categories to
define charging elements or load centers not in the tables.

For example, you might want to charge different CPU time
rates based on zone and print a different description for
each zone on the invoice.  You could create a different
computation code for each zone.  Each computation code would
charge for CPU time, but would have a different description.
Then you would use control variable charging in Rate Table to
associate each zone with a different computation code and
rate.