Abstract: A system and computer program product for the unified viewing of roles and permissions includes selecting an end user accessing data in a data processing system and determining an assigned role for the end user. The assigned role may then be deconstructed into a hierarchy of nested roles, and, for each of the nested roles, corresponding permissions may be determined. Thereafter, for each of the corresponding permissions, dependent other permissions may be identified. Finally, a dashboard user interface may be generated and displayed to as to include both the hierarchy of nested roles and also the listing the corresponding permissions along with the identified dependent other permissions.