General Ledger Recharge Rate
Invoicing & Chargeback
Definition
This measures total cloud spend in the cloud management tool vs. amount charged in General Ledger (Finance application).
Formula, as published
(Total CSP Cloud Spend recorded as a Journal in the General Ledger) / (Total CSP* cloud spend for the month)
- Data sources:
- CSP Billing Data Internal Finance Metric
- Example:
- ACME Global Limited monthly cloud spend for July is $1,000,000. ACME Global Limited Finance application records the total cloud spend to the General Ledger as $1,000,000 Income Statement Recharge Rate = 100%
- Note:
- * CSP = Cloud Service Provider
Calculate it
Example values to start with; replace them with yours.
General ledger recharge rate
100.0%
From the FinOps Foundation
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Definition and formula: General Ledger Recharge Rate, FinOps KPI library, FinOps Foundation, licensed CC BY 4.0, read 16 Oct 2026. Changed: HTML removed, dashes and British spellings changed, formula split from its data sources and examples. The calculator and the notes are Finitizer’s.
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