An IT chargeback system is an accounting strategy that applies the costs of IT services, hardware or software to the business unit in which they are used.

This system contrasts with traditional IT accounting models in which a centralized department bears all of the IT costs in an organization and those costs are treated simply as corporate overhead.

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