chargeback
- noun
- /ˈtʃɑːrdʒbæk/
- Jargon
- The company adopted a chargeback model to promote accountability for shared service expenses among departments.
- chargeback system
- chargeback approach
- organizations using a chargeback
Examples
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This is because, by providing a measure of resource usage, chargeback also serves financial reporting and accountability.
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Since users are charged directly for IS services in a chargeback approach, it helps to stimulate more reasonable user requests than with a non-chargeback approach.
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Chargeback systems are likely to work better in this environment of greater user awareness.
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First, the focus is primarily on chargeback systems and the extent to which their characteristics affect the behavior and attitudes of users.
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It is proposed, therefore, that chargeback systems are likely to be more prevalent in larger organizations.
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Eighty companies used a non-chargeback approach and 61 organizations used a chargeback approach.
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The Markus (1987) study explores the feedback aspect of chargeback in influencing the implementation of office communication systems.
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The finance department implemented a chargeback system to accurately track service usage costs across different units.
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Using a chargeback approach, each department is billed for the resources they consume during the project.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Chargeback mixes charge ('a cost') and back ('return'), like sending a bill back to the person who used something. That is why a company uses a chargeback system to bill the department that actually used the service or resource.