During invoice approval any approver can change the confirmer. This hole in internal controls allows any approver to bypass the confirmation hierachry. Routing for approver is correct as this allows an additional approver to be added dureing the approval process. But allowing any approver to change the confirmer is contrary to all internal control conventions.
Previous requests along these lines have been denied and users have been pointed to the Approval Performance reports. This report would work if you could select all invoices for a given time period showing who confirmed. You could then look for exceptions to the company's policy. But this criteria is not available.
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The other way to solve this is to not allow your approvers access to the invoice header. This is controlled in Function Security...they can change everything they want in the distribution, but the header remains view only. (And that is where the ability to change reviewers comes in)
Your exception report should be able to be created for you in Crystal Report. The VN_ROUTING_HISTORY_MC table holds the listing of all approvers/confirmers of the invoice including a date/time stamp. I took this information and added it to the check register, so that when the check signers would look at the report, they could see the approvers that approved the invoice before the check was printed.