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Authorize business activities or transactions

Work activity · O*NET

Authorize business activities or transactions is an intermediate work activity in the O*NET database — a concrete task that recurs across many occupations , grouped under Making Decisions and Solving Problems. 23 occupations report doing it as part of their work.

What it involves

The most common detailed activities O*NET records under this category, ranked by how many occupation tasks map to each.

  • Approve expenditures
  • Authorize financial actions
  • Authorize payments to settle legal disputes
  • Authorize construction activities

How AI is applied to this activity

Microsoft's "Working with AI" study mapped real Bing Copilot conversations to O*NET work activities. The figures below are their measurements for this activity — they describe how AI is used today in one assistant's data, not a forecast that the activity will be automated.

AI completes it successfully 100.0% When Copilot attempts this activity, how often it finishes the task
Scope AI handles 0.0% How much of the activity AI carries within a conversation
Positive user feedback 80.0% Share of interactions users rated positively
How often AI is applied here 6th pct Percentile across all measured activities by how often AI performs them

Source: Microsoft "Working with AI" (working-with-ai). A high completion rate means AI can assist the activity in isolation — it does not mean an occupation that performs it is being automated, since every job blends many activities.

Detailed work activities

The more granular units of work O*NET groups under this activity, ordered by how many occupations perform them.

Occupations that perform this activity

Ranked by how many of the occupation's tasks map to this activity.

Occupation Tasks
Insurance Underwriters 3
Architectural and Engineering Managers 2
Construction and Building Inspectors 2
Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates 2
Loan Officers 2
Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers 1
Aerospace Engineers 1
Arbitrators, Mediators, and Conciliators 1
Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary 1
Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare 1
Financial Managers 1
First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers 1
Industrial Production Managers 1
Investment Fund Managers 1
Legislators 1
Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners 1
Natural Sciences Managers 1
Purchasing Managers 1
Sales Managers 1
Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers 1
Treasurers and Controllers 1
Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products 1
Wind Energy Operations Managers 1
Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay AI task-overlap (horizontal) versus median pay (vertical), each as a percentile across all scored occupations, for 22 occupations in occupations that perform Authorize business activities or transactions.. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Construction and Building Inspectors First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers Industrial Production Managers Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates Arbitrators, Mediators, and Conciliators Legislators Insurance Underwriters Loan Officers AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
Occupations that perform Authorize business activities or transactions., by AI task-overlap and median pay

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

Cite this page
Plain

Singulariki. "Authorize business activities or transactions." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/activities/authorize-business-activities-or-transactions

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Authorize business activities or transactions. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/activities/authorize-business-activities-or-transactions

BibTeX 
@misc{singulariki-authorize-business-activities-or-transactions,
  title  = {Authorize business activities or transactions},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/activities/authorize-business-activities-or-transactions}
}

Citations name the underlying public dataset releases — they reflect what this page is built from, not just the URL.