Assign billing account scope access
Access to the billing account scope requires enterprise administrator permission in the EA portal.
The enterprise administrator can view costs across the entire EA enrollment or multiple enrollments.
No action is required in the Azure portal for the billing account scope.
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Assign enrollment account scope access
Access to the enrollment account scope requires account owner (AO view charges) access in the EA portal.
The account owner can view costs and usage data associated with the subscriptions created from that enrollment account.
No action is required in the Azure portal.
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Assign management group scope access
Access to view the management group scope requires at least the Cost Management Reader (or Reader) permission.
You can configure permissions for a management group in the Azure portal.
You must have at least the User Access Administrator (or Owner) permission for the management group to enable access for others.
And for Azure EA accounts, you must also have enabled the AO view charges setting in the EA portal.
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Cost Management scopes
Azure EA subscription scopes
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Enable access to costs in the Azure portal
The department scope requires the Department admins can view charges (DA view charges) option set to On.
Configure the option in either the Azure portal or the EA portal.
All other scopes require the Account owners can view charges (AO view charges) option set to On.
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Enable access to costs in the EA portal
The department scope requires the DA view charges option Enabled in the EA portal.
Configure the option in either the Azure portal or the EA portal.
All other scopes require the AO view charges option Enabled in the EA portal.
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Enterprise administrator role
By default, an enterprise administrator can access the billing account (Enterprise Agreement/enrollment) and all other scopes, which are child scopes.
The enterprise administrator assigns access to scopes for other users.
As a best practice for business continuity, you should always have two users with enterprise administrator access.
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How do I access cost management at the subscription scope?
To access Cost Management at the subscription scope, any user with Azure RBAC access to a subscription can view costs at retail (pay-as-you-go) rates.
However the cost visibility policy for the customer tenant must be enabled.
To view a full list of supported account types, see Understand Cost Management data.
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How do I enable cost management in azure?
As a partner, Cost Management is natively available only for subscriptions that are on the Azure plan.
To enable Cost Management in the Azure portal, you must have confirmed customer acceptance of the Microsoft Customer Agreement (on behalf of the customer) and transitioned the customer to the Azure Plan.
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Other Azure account scopes
To view cost data for other Azure subscriptions, a user must have at least read access to one or more of the following scopes:
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Overview
For users with Azure Enterprise agreements, a combination of permissions granted in the Azure portal and the Enterprise (EA) portal define a user's level of access to Cost Management data.
For users with other Azure account types, defining a user's level of access to Cost Management data is simpler by using Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC).
This article walks you through assigning access to Cost Management data.
After the combination of permissions is assigned, the user views data in Cost Management based on their access scope and on the scope that they select in the Azure portal.
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Why is cost management not available for subscription users?
When the policy is set to No, Cost Management isn't available for subscription users associated to the customer.
Unless enabled by a partner, the cost visibility policy is disabled by default for all subscription users.
