FOCUS column
BilledCost
The amount actually invoiced for the row in the billing currency: cash, as the provider charged it, after negotiated discounts and credits but with upfront purchases shown when they were bought rather than spread over time. Summed over a billing period, BilledCost equals the invoice, which makes it the reconciliation figure.
Example
A one-year reservation bought upfront for $12,000 in September shows $12,000 of BilledCost in September and zero in the following months.
Where it comes from, per export
The export column that feeds BilledCost in each format the platform ingests, and the transform applied. A format with no row does not carry the column; the value is then absent rather than guessed.
| Export | Source column | Transform |
|---|---|---|
| AWS Data Exports, FOCUS | BilledCost | cast to decimal |
| Azure Cost Management, FOCUS export | BilledCost | cast to decimal |
| Azure Cost Details (actual cost) | CostInBillingCurrency | cast to decimal |
| Azure Cost Details (amortized cost) | Not carried | — |
| Google Cloud detailed billing export | cost | cast to decimal |
How Runcost uses it
Runcost reconciles every provider’s BilledCost to its invoice to the cent before allocating, and reports cash-basis statements from it.
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About this reference
Generated from the column contract and provider rules that Runcost runs, and written by Faisal Saleem, Founder. The normative definitions are in the FinOps Foundation’s FOCUS specification at focus.finops.org.