Department
Last reviewed 2026-11-12.
Short answer. A department is a Meridian team record with a name, an optional code, a monthly budget, members, and a GL mapping. The glossary lists it with the Agent FinOps terms. The definition on this page is the one the glossary shows.
A department is a Meridian team record with a name, an optional code, a monthly budget, members, and a GL mapping. Chargeback assigns spend by department.
You create it on Departments. A cost center tag on a ledger row is a separate field. Analytics can show either one.
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 center
- Cost pool
- Attributed
- Settled and estimate
- Agent 365
- Finding
- OASA specification
- The Missing Ledger