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title: Aggregate CI costs
description: Expense lines can be aggregated to apply all configuration item expenses to a parent business service or application with relationship paths.
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# Aggregate CI costs

Expense lines can be aggregated to apply all configuration item expenses to a parent business service or application with relationship paths.

Define relationship paths from a child configuration class to one or many parent classes. If a path does not match one of the relationship path record criteria, the path is not viewed as a relationship when determining expense aggregations. See [CI relationships](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-business-management/cost-management/t_CIRelationships.md).

**Parent Topic:**[CI rate cards](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-business-management/cost-management/c_CIRateCards.md)