Patent ID: 8321919

Claim:
A method of delegating authority for approving transactions, the method comprising: receiving, by a computer system, a selection of a manager having authority to approve a plurality of transaction types that are submitted by members of a personnel group; receiving, by a computer system, a selection of a proxy user who does not have authority to approve one or more of the plurality of transaction types that are submitted by members of the personnel group; receiving, by a computer system, delegated transaction types, comprising a selection of one or more of the plurality of transaction types; activating, by the computer system, the authority for the proxy user to approve transactions that are: classified as one or more of the delegated transaction types, and submitted by a member of the personnel group; in response to activating the authority, automatically providing, by the computer system, additional security access to the proxy user; revoking, by the computer system, the authority for the proxy user; and in response to revoking the authority, removing, by the computer system, the additional security access for the proxy user.