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+```mermaid
+
+graph
+
+A["Orchestrator.prepare()"] --> B[start-manifest-processing]
+B --> C["ReportDownloader()"]
+C --> D["get manifest list\n(download manifest, insert manifest record)"]
+D --> |"iterate over manifests (only GCP has more than 1)"| E["ensure each file of manifest has status record (weirdly done)"]
+E --> |iterate over each file of manifest| F["generate new `report_context` dict from manifest copy"]
+F --> G[create list of tasks to download report file]
+G --> H["trigger task to download files (pass in report context and account info)"]
+
+H --> I[get_report_files]
+I --> J[_get_report_files]
+J --> K["ReportDownloader()"]
+K --> L[download file]
+
+
+
+
+```
+
+
+H --> I[trigger summary tasks]
+H --> J[trigger hcs tasks]
+H --> K[trigger subs tasks]
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+```mermaid
+
+graph
+    A["check_report_updates (scheduled task)"] -->|"masu.celery.tasks.check_report_updates (default queue)"| B["Orchestrator(scheduled=True).prepare()"]
+    B --> C[for provider in pollable_providers]
+    C --> D{providers left?}
+    D -->|yes| E[provider-type]
+    E -->|AWS/Azure| F[O.prepare_monthly_report_sources]
+    F --> G["report_months = O.get_reports\n(there is some masu API specific logic in\nhere. But also, this returns\nmonths to iterate over...)"]
+    G --> H["for month in report_months\n(list of datetime.date)"]
+    H --> I{months left?}
+    I -->|yes| J[" `account['report_month'] = month`\nself.start_manifest_processing\n(see 02-start-manifest-processing.md)"]
+    J -->|Success| K[label accounts]
+    K -->|Success/Exception| I
+    J -->|Exception| I
+    I -->|no| D
+
+
+    E -->|GCP/OCI| L[O.prepare_continuous_report_sources]
+    L --> M[" `account['report_month'] = start_date`\n`DateAccessor().get_billing_month_start(f'{self.bill_date}01')` (a datetime.date)\nor\nDateHelper().today (a datetime.datetime)"]
+    M --> N["self.start_manifest_processing\n(see 02-start-manifest-processing.md)"]
+    N -->|Success/Exception| D
+
+    D -->|"no"| Z[Done]
+```
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