S.C. Code Ann. § 58-9-340
The Commission may in its discretion prescribe systems of accounts to be kept by telephone utilities subject to its jurisdiction and it may prescribe the manner in which the accounts shall be kept and may require every telephone utility to keep its books, papers and records accurately and faithfully according to the system of accounts as prescribed by the Commission. But nothing in this section shall be construed to be in conflict with or in violation of the provisions of the Communications Act of Congress of 1934, as amended (U. S. C. A. Title 47, Sections 151 through 609), nor shall anything herein be construed to be in conflict with any lawful order of the Federal Communications Commission issued pursuant to the authority vested in it by said act of Congress.