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AI Chargeback: How to Allocate LLM Costs to Business Units
Most finance leaders see AI spend balloon on a quarterly report, then scramble to find the source. A $12,000 OpenAI bill that appears under a single “AI Services” line hides dozens of hidden projects, each pulling its own share of the budget. Without clear attribution, the finance team spends an…
Activity-Based Costing for LLM Spend: Aligning AI Expenses with Business Drivers
Most finance teams discover that their AI bill jumped from $12,800 to $18,300 in a single month, yet the line‑item report only shows “OpenAI – GPT‑4”. The lack of granularity means the CFO cannot answer whether the surge came from the new chatbot, the nightly data‑summarization job, or an…
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