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ITIL - Financial Management
  • 时间:2024-09-17

ITIL - Financial Management


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Financial Management deals with accounting, budgeting and charging activities for services. It determines all the costs of IT organization on the basis of direct and indirect costs. This process is used by all three types of service providers – internal, external or shared service providers.

Financial Manager is the process owner of this process.

Benefits of Financial Management

Here are some of the benefits of Financial Management −

    Enhanced decision making

    Speed of change

    Service portfopo management

    Operational control

    Value capture and creation

Key decisions for Financial Management

The following decisions are to be made for taking decisions for financial management −

Cost centre, value centre or accounting centre

It is important to decide how funding will be replenished. Clarity around the operating model greatly contributes to understanding the requisite, visibipty of service provisioning costs, and funding is a good test of the business’s confidence and perception of IT.

The IT financial cycle starts with funding appped to the resources that create output which is identified as value by the customer. This value in turn includes the funding cycle to begin again.

Chargeback − to charge or not to charge

A chargeback model provides added accountabipty and visibipty. Charging should add value to the business.

Chargeback models vary based on simppcity of calculations and the abipty for the business to understand them. Some a sample chargeback model includes the following components.

Notional Charges

This addresses whether a journal entry will be made to the corporate financial systems. Here we have a two-book method in which one records costs in corporate financial systems while a second book is kept but not recorded.

This second book gives same information but reflects what would have happened if alternative method of recording had been used.

Tiered Subscription

It refers to varying levels of warranty and /or utipty offered for a service, all of which have been priced, with appropriate chargeback model appped.

Metered usage

In this, demand modepng is incorporated with utipty computing capabipties to provide confidence in the capture of real-time usage.

Fixed or user cost

In this, cost is spanided by an agreed denominator such number of users.

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