An accounting apparatus and method for a mobile communication system, where a
packet service accounting method for a mobile communication terminal includes the
steps of checking whether there is an error in a received PPP frame; if there is
an erroneous PPP frame in the received PPP frame, generating a PPP control frame
containing a size information of the erroneous PPP frame; transmitting the PPP
control frame to a base station; and if an authorization response for the PPP control
frame is received from the base station, updating a size of total received data,
and displaying the updated data size on a display.