I, personally, don't feel that its serious. I ran the sales persons book of business (which you would think he's entitled to see anyway)...They're his accounts, he started them and he manages them. I think they feel that he might pull all his business from this company and go elsewhere with it. But how would I have known that they didn't want it run? I never needed approval to get them done before.
I wouldn't worry about it that much, then. Unless you think it might come back to you that you sent the report and shouldn't have. That's a point of contention.