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ASSOCIATE-CLOUD-ENGINEER · Question #209

You have experimented with Google Cloud using your own credit card and expensed the costs to your company. Your company wants to streamline the billing process and charge the costs of your projects…

The correct answer is D. Change the billing account of your projects to the billing account of your company. To consolidate billing, you should change the billing account associated with your personal projects to your company's existing billing account, allowing costs to be charged to the company's monthly invoice.

Submitted by alyssa_d· Mar 30, 2026Setting up a cloud solution environment

Question

You have experimented with Google Cloud using your own credit card and expensed the costs to your company. Your company wants to streamline the billing process and charge the costs of your projects to their monthly invoice. What should you do?

Options

  • AGrant the financial team the IAM role of "Billing Account User" on the billing account linked to your
  • BSet up BigQuery billing export and grant your financial department IAM access to query the data.
  • CCreate a ticket with Google Billing Support to ask them to send the invoice to your company.
  • DChange the billing account of your projects to the billing account of your company.

How the community answered

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  • A
    4% (2)
  • B
    2% (1)
  • D
    94% (50)

Why each option

To consolidate billing, you should change the billing account associated with your personal projects to your company's existing billing account, allowing costs to be charged to the company's monthly invoice.

AGrant the financial team the IAM role of "Billing Account User" on the billing account linked to your

Granting a 'Billing Account User' role helps manage the billing account but does not change which billing account a project is linked to, nor does it address the initial problem of transferring costs to the company's invoice.

BSet up BigQuery billing export and grant your financial department IAM access to query the data.

Setting up BigQuery billing export is for cost analysis and reporting, not for changing the primary billing method or consolidating project billing under a different account.

CCreate a ticket with Google Billing Support to ask them to send the invoice to your company.

While Google Billing Support can assist, the primary operational step to change the billing source for projects is a user action within the Cloud Console or via `gcloud` commands, not just opening a support ticket to request an invoice change.

DChange the billing account of your projects to the billing account of your company.Correct

The most direct way to streamline billing and ensure your projects are charged to your company's monthly invoice is to change the billing account for your existing projects from your personal one to your company's established billing account. This ensures all associated costs are aggregated and billed under the company's financial structure.

Concept tested: Project billing account management

Source: https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/change-project-billing

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#billing account#project billing#cost management

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