IA - Intermediate Approver: Which statement about IA is true?

• A. An IA can view and recommend approval or denial and must provide comments for recommended deny actions; their actions move through the workflow.
• B. An IA only approves automatically after a delay.
• C. An IA edits payroll data only.
• D. An IA has full security admin access.

Answer: (A)

In a multi-step approval workflow, an Intermediate Approver is there to review the item, see all relevant details, and make a recommendation about its next status. The key idea is that they can view the item and decide to move it forward by approving or, if denying it, they must provide comments to justify that denial. Their decision updates the item’s status and pushes it along to the next step in the process, rather than letting it sit or being applied automatically.

This fits because the role is about guiding the workflow through intermediate review, not about automatic approvals, exclusive data editing, or broad system access. Automatic approval after a delay would bypass human judgment, editing payroll data is a separate operational task, and full security admin access is a higher-privilege role outside typical intermediate review duties.