Cost center
A cost center is the accounting destination a cost is charged to. In Meridian that destination is a department.
Seat CSV rows use the department column on the file. An agent can name a department on Agents & allocation. Chargeback uses those departments when it builds the month.
Related terms
- Agent spend attribution
- Agent FinOps vs. TokenOps
- Settlement vs. billing vs. attribution
- System of record for AI labor
- FinOps for agentic AI
- Agent FinOps
- AI labor
- Spend under management
- Attribution readiness
- Cost per outcome
- AI spend assessment
- Unattributed spend
- Agent inventory
- Chargeback in an AI context
- Zero-Access assessment
- FOCUS
- BilledCost
- EffectiveCost
- ChargeCategory
- ChargePeriod
- ServiceCategory
- Provider, Publisher, ServiceProvider, and HostProvider
- Contract Commitment dataset
- Invoice Detail dataset
- Virtual currency and token columns
- Journal entry
- Suspense account
- Accrual
- Chargeback vs. showback
- Subledger
- Tie-out and reconciliation
- Trial balance
- Dimensions and worktags
- OASA
- Rate card
- Cost pool
- Attributed
- Settled and estimate
- OASA specification
- The Missing Ledger