Tie-out and reconciliation
A tie-out demonstrates that two records expected to agree do agree, or explains every difference. Reconciliation is the repeatable process of finding, classifying, and resolving those differences.
For AI spend, this connects metering, source bills, the subledger, journal entries, and GL balances.
Related terms
- Agent spend attribution
- Agent FinOps vs. TokenOps
- Settlement vs. billing vs. attribution
- System of record for AI labor
- 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
- Trial balance
- Dimensions and worktags
- OASA specification
- The Missing Ledger