Permissions for Financials (tcsec3160m000)

Use this session to view and maintain the permissions ( authorization policies, authorization roles, and assigned rules), for the Financials related process.

Note: In a specified set of finance related sessions, employees assigned to the Financials permissions can only view, use, or modify the documents for which they are authorized to access. In the Financials Permissions (tcsec3660m000) session, you can also assign the authorization for the GL-Code, Ledger Account, and Dimensions as specified in the Budget Account Distribution (tcbgc1100m000) session.

Field Information

Permission for

The business process for which permissions are defined.

If the Permission for field set to Employee, this attribute is used to authorize:

Dimensions based on the Person Responsible specified in the Dimensions (tfgld0510m000) session.
Financial Statements documents based on the user specified in the Created by User field in the Financial Statements (tffst1500m000) session.

If the Permission for field is set to GL-Code or Ledger Account, you can specify a range of GL codes or Chart of Accounts for which authorizations can be set. The Of the Employee and From Authorized Documents check boxes are disabled for these attributes (GL-code or Ledger Account).

If you set the Permission for field to Dimension, the Dimension Type field to Department, and click Activate, you can access the documents, based on the specified authorization level, listed on the Financials Documents tab in the Employee Document Permissions (tcsec2600m000) session.

Note:

View: The employee can view the data related to the specified business process.
Use: The employee can use the data related to the specified business process. For example, the employee can use the project data in Hours Accounting.
Modify: The employee can modify the data and execute the related processes.
No Permission: The data related to the specified business process is not displayed.
Not Applicable: This value is displayed only if a business process is not selected.

Note: This option is only valid for the Authorization and Security Parameters (tcsec0100m000) sessions.

You must click Apply Permissions and also select the Active Rule check box to activate the authorization.
The Authorization Level, Business Partner Permissions is only applicable, if the Dimension Type field is set to Business Partner and the Permission for field is set to Dimension.

Allowed values

Project
Item
Business Partner
Requisition
Procurement
Sales
Contract
Warehousing
Intercompany Trade

Permission Type

The permissions defined for the type of authorization.

Allowed values

Authorization Role
Authorization Policy
Assigned Rule

Permission

The code of the specified authorization type.

Version

The version specified for the employee authorization.

Permission for

The attribute value for the Financials process.

Allowed values

Transaction Type
Employee
Ledger Account
Parent Ledger Account
Dimension
Parent Dimension
GL-Code
Bank Relation
Financial Statement
Budget (FBS)

Sequence

The sequence number of the permission line.

Of the Employee

If this check box is selected, the attribute value of the specified business process, must be the same as that linked to the employee in the Employees - General (tccom0101m000) session.

Dimension Type

The dimension type.

Note:

In the Group Company Parameters (tfgld0101s000) session, Dimension Types can be linked to a data object such as Project, Warehousing, or Business Partners.
If Dimension Types are linked to a data object such as Project, the Permission for field can be used to assign the Authorization Level of the data object to the Dimension Type.

From Authorized Documents

If this check box is selected, the Authorization Level can also be set to Business Partner Permissions, or Project Permissions, or Warehouse Permissions.

Note: The authorization level for a financial document is only valid, if the Dimension Type is set to Project, or Warehousing, or Business Partner.

From

The From and To fields define a range of: attribute values specific to the Financials process. This value is based on the Permission for field.

Note: This field is enabled only if the Of the Employee check box is cleared in the Financials Permissions (tcsec3660m000) session.

Authorization Level

The authorization level you must set for the employee to access the specified attribute related to the Financials process.

Note: The authorization level, Business Partner Permissions is only applicable, if the Permission for field is set to Dimension and the Dimension Type field is set to Business Partner.

Allowed values

View
No Permission
Use
Not Applicable
Modify
Project Permissions
Warehouse Permissions
Business Partner Permissions

Active Rule

If this check box is selected, the permission rule is considered when applying permissions for the Financials related business process.

Note: If this check box is cleared, the permission rule is temporarily deactivated