diff --git a/doc/html/programmer_guide.shtml b/doc/html/programmer_guide.shtml
index ce3d72e999bda778044b19b9cb7124d297db6a4a..6e9c59e8f633560f84ee48e9cd72dc526247fb7d 100644
--- a/doc/html/programmer_guide.shtml
+++ b/doc/html/programmer_guide.shtml
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ initiation a parallel job step.<br>
 <b>sshare</b>&#151;User command to view shares and usage when the Multifactor
 Job Priority plugin is installed.<br>
 <b>sstat</b>&#151;User command to view detailed statistics about running
-jobs.<br>
+jobs when a Job Accounting Gather plugin is installed.<br>
 <b>strigger</b>&#151;User and administrator tool to manage event triggers.<br>
 <b>sview</b>&#151;User command to view and update node, partition, and job 
 job state information.<br>
diff --git a/doc/man/man1/sacct.1 b/doc/man/man1/sacct.1
index 2acd7bce72ab013f8e75f0424c8cdbbe69dccb6a..cd82649dee810560997db252e069b6a01656c961 100644
--- a/doc/man/man1/sacct.1
+++ b/doc/man/man1/sacct.1
@@ -1,23 +1,21 @@
 .TH SACCT "1" "January 2009" "sacct 2.0" "Slurm components"
 
 .SH "NAME"
-sacct
-\- displays accounting data for all jobs and job steps in the SLURM job accounting log
+sacct \- displays accounting data for all jobs and job steps in the
+SLURM job accounting log or SLURM database
 
 .SH "SYNOPSIS"
-.HP 
-.BR "sacct "
-\f2\fP\f2options \fP 
+\fBsacct\fR [\fIOPTIONS\fR...]
 
 .SH "DESCRIPTION"
 .PP
-Accounting information for jobs invoked with SLURM are logged in the job 
-accounting log file.
+Accounting information for jobs invoked with SLURM are either logged
+in the job accounting log file or saved to the SLURM database.
 .PP
 The 
 .BR "sacct "
 command displays job accounting data stored in the job accounting log 
-file in a variety of forms for your analysis.
+file or SLURM database in a variety of forms for your analysis.
 The 
 .BR "sacct "
 command displays information on jobs, job steps, status, and exitcodes by 
@@ -62,7 +60,8 @@ If --dump is not specified, elapsed time fields are presented as
 The default input file is the file named in the jobacct_logfile
 parameter in slurm.conf.
 
-.SS "Options"
+.SH "OPTIONS"
+
 .TP "10"
 \f3\-a \fP\f3,\fP \f3\-\-allusers\fP
 Displays the current user's jobs. Displays all users jobs when run by root.
@@ -1139,4 +1138,4 @@ designate the job accounting log file that collects system job accounting.
 The default job accounting log file.
 By default, this file is set to read and write permission for root only.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
-ps(1), srun(1), squeue(1), getrusage(2), time(2)
+sstat(1), ps(1), srun(1), squeue(1), getrusage(2), time(2)