FOCUS column
BillingCurrency
The ISO 4217 code of the currency the row was invoiced in, which is the currency of BilledCost, EffectiveCost, ListCost and ContractedCost. Providers bill in the currency of the agreement, so a multi-provider dataset can carry several billing currencies and must convert before combining totals.
Example
AWS rows carry USD; an Azure enterprise agreement in Europe carries EUR; both must be converted before a group total is meaningful.
Where it comes from, per export
The export column that feeds BillingCurrency 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 | BillingCurrency | as is |
| Azure Cost Management, FOCUS export | BillingCurrency | as is |
| Azure Cost Details (actual cost) | BillingCurrencyCode | as is |
| Azure Cost Details (amortized cost) | BillingCurrencyCode | as is |
| Google Cloud detailed billing export | currency | as is |
How Runcost uses it
Runcost converts to the organization’s reporting currency at the rate finance uses and keeps the billing currency on the row for audit.
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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.