# Stream Accounting API
## Overview
Streams move value every second, but accounting tools don’t record value transfer on a real-time basis (typically it’s monthly). The Stream Accounting API can be used to represent your streams in a manner that’s consumable by your traditional accounting tools.
## Functionality
The Stream Accounting API is RESTful and exposes a single endpoint which allows for fetching stream data across all Superfluid tokens and networks.
The API lets you **chop up the amounts an address has been streaming over time into accounting periods of your choice** (monthly, daily, even hourly).
**Token Pricing**
If the token you are streaming has price tracking from Coingecko, then you will be able to get price information for each period in a currency of your choice as well. You can also select price granularity. This lets you choose whether you want to get your prices as an average over a lagging timeframe of your choice or just the instantaneous price for each period.
**Accommodating Flow Rate Updates**
The Stream Accounting API accommodates changes in stream flow rates. Basically, a “stream period” is a period over which a stream’s flow rate is the same. Once the flow rate is updated, a new stream period begins. When getting accounting data over a certain duration in which the account in concern has a stream whose flow rate has been updated, you’ll see that the data is segmented into separate stream periods for each different flow rate.
**Outgoing & Incoming**
The API accounts for both outgoing and incoming streams in the same data export, denoting incoming streams with positive values and outbound streams with negative values.
**All Networks and All Tokens**
The Stream Accounting API supports all Superfluid-supported networks and tokens through use of the [Superfluid Subgraphs](https://docs.superfluid.finance/superfluid/developers/subgraph).
## Example
Alice is paying Bob in a stream of 0.1 ETHx per month.
You want to get accounting info on the stream Alice is sending on a monthly basis between **June 1st and September 15th**.
The Stream Accounting API gives you information for the months between June 1st and September 15th.
Let’s say Alice had updated her stream to 0.2 ETHx/month on September 15th.
Now, you want to get accounting info on the stream Alice is sending on a month basis between June 1st and **December 1st**.
The Stream Accounting API gives you information for the month between June 1st and December 1st.
## Using the Stream Accounting API
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