Virtual currency and token columns

FOCUS virtual-currency fields describe provider-defined units such as credits, tokens, or DBUs and their relationship to national currency. They support purchase, consumption, burn-down, and rate analysis.

FOCUS 1.2 added pricing-currency requirements that made these unit economics portable across SaaS, PaaS, and AI billing.

In Meridian, quantities and units map to usage metadata attached to financial spend rows.

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
• Journal entry
• Suspense account
• Accrual
• Chargeback vs. showback
• Subledger
• Tie-out and reconciliation
• Trial balance
• Dimensions and worktags
• OASA specification
• The Missing Ledger