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Charging Options

CA PMA Chargeback

• Flexible Rate Structure Definition

  With CA PMA Chargeback you can define as flexible a rate structure as you need including variable rates for shift differentials, premiums and surcharges, minimum and maximum charges, and so forth. In other words, CA PMA Chargeback:

  • Handles billing adjustments at several levels including debits and credits, overhead allocation, and cost recovery to provide flexiblity when invoice modifications are required.
  • Provides shift chopping to allow the expense of long-running jobs or tasks that span multiple shifts to be prorated according to the resources consumed within each shift.
  • Offers split charging so that costs can be distributed across several accounting entities.
• Flexible Accounting Structure Definition

  CA PMA Chargeback enables you to define your accounting structure to match your organizational environment. You can define up to five levels of accounting structure, each composed of three fields. Additionally, a table lookup facility is provided to translate the incoming accounting codes to user-defined values. Additionally, CA PMA Chargeback accepts user-defined accounting time periods that include flexible time boundaries which need not be based on calendar month.

• Unit Normalization

  CA PMA Chargeback provides the ability to apply normalization or weighting factors to a specific resource unit. For example, CPU time from CPUs with different processing speeds can be normalized or standardized, thus providing the ability to define a single rate for multiple CPU models. This greatly simplifies rate definition.