FinOps Center creates two invoice file types: Accounts Payable and Financial Planning. The purpose for the 2 files is the Account Payable is to be used in Core Financial to Pay the AWS Bill and the Financial Planning file is spending aligned to each individual product/project budget. 

CCoE for Account Payable 

In addition to the Spending being aggregated at the Business Unit tier in the hierarchy, there is also consideration for the total credits provided during that billing cycle. When an AWS Credit is issued for an Account in a Cloud Estate, the credit flows to the MasterAccount assuming there is Consolidate Billing and that in the MasterPayer there haven't been any segmentation of Credits application to specific accounts (new 2024). 

Common Scenario: A customer's bill is $50,000. In the billing period two project got $5,000 bill credits for their various projects. Those credits will be consumed by the overall bill and the bill to be paid is $40,000. This is accounted for in the CCoE Account Payable File. 

Business Unit to support Financial Planning

Financial Planning File is available to both CCoE and Business Unit Roles. CCoE Users have all of the Financial Scope Product/Project Budges of the Organization while the Business Units are limited to their specific business unit. 

Credits are accounted for on individual product/project level so that those teams see the credits they negotiated with AWS.