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  Overview of  COA in OpenText Maintenance of Chart of Authority  In VIM we use COA for the level based approval. It is used in NON-PO based document type and for PO based invoices baseline implementation identifies the requester of the PO as the first and only  approver. Basically COA provides a single interface where the combination of approvers, approval limits and coder are maintained for the Invoice approval process. Use TCODE -/OPT/AR_COA We have 4 Tabs within  COA. User details Approval Limits/Level COA Details Coder Settings User Details We use substitutes management utility for adding substitute to USER so that in absence of present user it can be approved by its substitute.  Approval Limits/Level Parameters 1.Company code 2.Approval Level 3.Expense type of invoices 4.Description 5.Amount Limit 6.Approval Category 7.Additional Amount COA Details: It Enables to assign cost center to the user. Coder  Settings : It helps to maintain the  code for the subsequent AFS ID.