Viewing Costs by Linked Account

The enterprise master account can categorize the costs of its member accounts by linked account to manage the accounting of those member accounts.

Step 1: Enabling Enterprise Center

Enterprise Center allows you to associate multiple Huawei Cloud accounts for accounting. You can use a master account to create a hierarchical organization, create and associated member accounts with the master account. The master account then can manage the accounting of all its associated member accounts. For details about how to enable Enterprise Center, see Enabling Enterprise Center.

Step 2: Associating with Member Accounts

An enterprise master account associated with member accounts can manage the accounting of these member accounts. For details about how to associate a master account with member accounts, see Associating Accounts.

Step 3: Viewing Costs by Linked Account

When viewing costs by linked account, you are advised to summarize cost data based on amortized costs.

Log in to Cost Center.
Choose Cost Insights > Cost Analysis.
Set Grouped By to Linked Account.
- Group cost data by linked account.
  
  In this figure, the current login account is an enterprise master account, and the cost data for each linked account is displayed in the chart.
- Filter cost data by linked account.
  
  In this figure, costs for the linked account Cost_HK_EMPrimary01 are displayed by service type in the chart.
- View cost details by linked account.
  Click Export to export the cost details file. In the file, you can view cost details by Linked Account.