FOCUS column
BillingAccountType
The provider’s own term for what kind of entity the billing account is, so a reader knows whether an id refers to a payer account, a billing profile, an enterprise agreement or a cloud billing account. It is provider-specific by design and is not normalized across providers.
Example
Azure emits “BillingProfile” for Microsoft Customer Agreement billing profiles; AWS emits the type of its management account.
Where it comes from, per export
The export column that feeds BillingAccountType 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 | BillingAccountType | as is |
| Azure Cost Management, FOCUS export | BillingAccountType | as is |
| Azure Cost Details (actual cost) | Not carried | — |
| Azure Cost Details (amortized cost) | Not carried | — |
| Google Cloud detailed billing export | Not carried | — |
How Runcost uses it
Runcost uses the type to label the billing hierarchy on the connections page, so a finance reader sees which agreement a charge came under.
Related columns
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.