Example

Description

You want to allocate costs across Department A, Department B, and Department C in your company, and the department of most of costs can be identified based on the tags configured for the resources. In addition, Department A uses the Face Recognition Service that does not support tag management, and an EVS is shared across all departments.

Known information: Cost tags are used, the tag key is Group, and key values are Department A, Department B, and Department C.

Step 1: Creating a Cost Category

Create a cost category and define the rules as follows:

Table 1 Rules

Name	Type	Content
Rule 1: Inherited Value - Cost Tags	Inherited	Condition: Select Cost Tag for Inherited Dimension and Group for Tag Key.
Rule 2: Department A	Customized	Condition: Service Type Is FRS Face Recognition Service.
Rule 3: Shared costs	Customized	Condition: Service Type Is Elastic Volume Service.
Uncategorized	-	Costs that do not match the preceding rules.

Figure 1 Creating a rule

Table 2 shows the cost allocation.

Step 2: Splitting the Shared Cost Across Departments

You can define cost splitting rules 48 hours after the cost category is created to split the shared cost across the departments.

• Select Custom for Allocation Method to split shared cost and allocate 50% of the shared cost to Department A, 30% for Department B, and 20% for Department C.
• Select Custom for Allocation Method to split uncategorized cost and allocate 30% of the uncategorized cost to Department A, 30% for Department B, and 40% for Department C.
  

  Currently, the following allocation modes are supported:

  • Proportionally: Allocate your costs in proportion to the weight of each target value.

    Example: The value of Target B is $800 USD and value of Target C is $200 USD. Target B/Target C = 4:1. 80% of source value will be allocated to Target B and 20% to Target C.

  • Evenly: Allocate your costs evenly across your target values.

    Example: There are two target values (A and B), and the source value is evenly allocated to A and B, (50% each).

  • Custom: Allocate your costs based on a custom percentage for each target value. The percentages must add up to 100%.
  Figure 2 Example splitting rules

  

  Table 3 Cost splitting rules

  Rule Name	Source Value	Target Value	Allocation Method	Rule Content	Associated Cost ($)
  Rule 1	Uncategorized	Department A Department B Department C	Custom	Department A: 50% Department B: 30% Department C: 20%	Department A: 100 x 50% = 50 Department B: 100 x 30% = 30 Department C: 100 x 20% = 20
  Rule 2:	Shared cost	Department A Department B Department C	Custom	Department A: 30% Department B: 30% Department C: 40%	Department A: 40 x 30% = 12 Department B: 40 x 30% = 12 Department C: 40 x 40% = 16

Step 3: Viewing Results