Profiles were the menas of assiging authorizations to users until 4.0 Versions.
Later to the same it was upgraded to the concept of Roles. The crux always remains the same.
Be it a profile or a role, it contains the Auth Object and the respective values.
But in present scenario, you can get confused by the profiles that are assignable to Users.
IN short the following points can be helpful.
1. The profiles like SAP_ALL;SAP_NEW,S_SPO_ALL etc are standard Profiles delivered by SAP which when assigned to a user in his profile in SU01 would get all the related authorizations.
( You must be lucky to have SAP_ALL assigned to ur ID by ur basis guy)
2. A role is created by assigning a few transactions to this role and when this role is generated, it generates a PROFILE. But this profile is a system generated one and cannot be ever assigned to any user. These profiles can be sorted out as they have the standard naming like T-XXXXXXXX where they are the numbers and it can never be assigned to any user.
3. Note prior to 4.0 its all Profiles that are assigned to users and later to the same came the concept of Roles and hence this change.
Hope the answer is helpful in making u undersand a few inputs form my side.
FYI:
Method to create a role can be checked out from the link below.
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