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Enabling Unified Accounting Management

Unified accounting management allows you to centrally manage the funds, bills, and invoices of member accounts. You need to pay the expenditures of the member accounts.

After you enable the Enterprise Center and associate a member account, you can use the unified accounting management function.

After you enable unified accounting management:

  • The enterprise master account issues invoices for the expenditure of the member accounts.
  • Your taxes cover the taxes of member accounts' expenditure. No separate tax determination will be performed for the member accounts.
  • By default, member accounts use the commercial discounts and cash coupons of the master account to purchase resources.
  • If the Cost Center is enabled for an enterprise master account, it will be enabled for all its member accounts by default. In the Cost Center, the master account can centrally manage the total cost of its enterprise, including cost analysis, budgets, cost tags, and cost recommendations. For details, visit Cost Management for Enterprises.

A master account that has enabled unified accounting management is a postpaid account by default. For details, visit Postpayment Instructions.

Precautions

  • If you are a direct sales customer or a customer associated with a solution partner in the referral model, and you have outstanding bills, pay the bills first and then enable Enterprise Center, or accept the invitation of becoming a member account and enable unified accounting management.
  • If an account has cash coupons and balance before being associated with another account, the cash coupons and balance of the account can be used to repay the bills generated before the association.
  • After association, no cash coupons can be issued to member accounts.
  • After association, the master account cannot request commercial discounts for member accounts.
  • Member accounts cannot use their balances after association. However, they can withdraw the balances, or use the balances after being disassociated from the master account.
  • After disassociation, the master account cannot view data of disassociated member accounts.
  • After association, a unified accounting member can view their resource usage and costs in Cost Center. If they disassociate with their master, they cannot access costs or resource usage generated during the association and if they need to access Cost Center, they must enable it.