General Ledger Recharge Rate per Cost Center
Definition
Total cloud spend in the cloud management tool per Cost Center vs. amount charged in General Ledger (Finance application) per Cost center.
Formula, as published
(Total CSP* Cloud Spend per Cost Center recorded as a Journal in the General Ledger) / (Total CSP* cloud spend per Cost center for the month)
- Data sources:
- CSP Billing Data Internal Finance Metric
- Example:
- ACME Global Limited monthly cloud spend for July is $1,000,000. The total chargeback amount per various cost center was: Finance = $200,000 ACME Global Limited Finance application records the total cloud spend to the General Ledger for Finance as $180,000 Income Statement Recharge Rate per Cost center = 90%
- Note:
- * CSP = Cloud Service Provider
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Definition and formula: General Ledger Recharge Rate per Cost Center, 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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