diff --git a/docs/Accounting.xml b/docs/Accounting.xml
index a45672c00..c3632dc9e 100644
--- a/docs/Accounting.xml
+++ b/docs/Accounting.xml
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@
     <command>shorewall restart</command>. This has a downside, however. If you
     change the network associated with an accounting table, then you must
     <command>shorewall stop; shorewall start</command> to have a successful
-    restart (counters will be cleared). </para>
+    restart (counters will be cleared).</para>
 
     <para>Example: Suppose your WAN interface is eth0 and your LAN interface
     is eth1 with network 172.20.1.0/24. To account for all traffic between the
@@ -321,6 +321,10 @@ ACCOUNT(net-loc,172.20.1.0/24)  -            eth1                eth0</programli
     <para>For each local IP address with non-zero counters, the packet and
     byte count for both incoming traffic (IP is DST) and outgoing traffic (IP
     is SRC) are listed. The -f option causes the table to be flushed (reset
-    all counters to zero) after printing. </para>
+    all counters to zero) after printing.</para>
+
+    <para>For a command synopsis:</para>
+
+    <programlisting><command>iptaccount --help</command></programlisting>
   </section>
 </article>
diff --git a/manpages/shorewall-accounting.xml b/manpages/shorewall-accounting.xml
index d0bcdba5f..8783bb422 100644
--- a/manpages/shorewall-accounting.xml
+++ b/manpages/shorewall-accounting.xml
@@ -117,9 +117,15 @@
                 (counters will be cleared).</para>
 
                 <para>The counters in a <replaceable>table</replaceable> are
-                printed using the <command>iptaccount</command> utility. As of
-                February 2011, the ACCOUNT Target capability and the
-                iptaccount utility are only available when <ulink
+                printed using the <command>iptaccount</command> utility. For a
+                command synopsis, type:</para>
+
+                <simplelist>
+                  <member><command>iptaccount --help</command></member>
+                </simplelist>
+
+                <para>As of February 2011, the ACCOUNT Target capability and
+                the iptaccount utility are only available when <ulink
                 url="http://xtables-addons.sourceforge.net/">xtables-addons</ulink>
                 is installed. See <ulink
                 url="http://www.shorewall.net/Accounting.html#perIP">http://www.shorewall.net/Accounting.html#perIP</ulink>