# Spend Cards for Cost Governance For maximum accountability, customers need their budet owners and their management to actively manage their spending during the billing cycle with approvals in that cycle. With FinOps Center, we introduce the capability for Spend Cards that are created at the end of ever period. Spend Card are created every Monday during the billing month with the last Card being created when the Cost and Usage Report includes the AWS Monthly invoice number indicating that the Billing Cycle has been finalized. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.finopscenter.com/cfm-processes/spend-cards-for-cost-governance.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.