Is there a way to create a role in NetSuite that has read only access to ALL transactions without literally clicking on every single transaction type in the role setup?

I'm not sure if Netsuite has such a role by default (there might be an auditor role that has this kind of permission level, but I can't see it on my instance) Personally I would start with the "CFO" base role, customise and reduce all the levels down to VIEW