Determining Media Chargebacks
The Billing and Chargeback Summary report provides a line item of each client's tape consumption. The Billing Summary Report calculates the chargeback based on billing and usage policies.
The report displays data based on the hosts/servers. This procedure assumes that you know which business units own specific hosts/servers.
There are a couple of limitations to the billing and chargeback reports:
The report does not consider shared tape usage. If Client A wrote to tapes 1, 2 and 3, the report shows charges for the client for those three tapes. If Client B also wrote to tapes 1 and 2, the report lists charges for that client for those two tapes. Therefore, if both Client A and Client B belong to the same business unit, they are billed twice for two of the three tapes.
The report always uses the current cost of a tape. If the cost changes and you generate a new report, the report reflects the new cost. However, if you run an old report from a year ago, it would also pick up the new cost and therefore not be the same as the original report. Therefore, before you change the unit cost, generate and export previous reports for comparison.