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The complete list of Audit Reports since 1997/1998 is available via this page. For hard copies of Audit Reports produced prior to 1997, please contact ANAO Publications via email or telephone 02 6203 7505.

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  • Equity in Employment in the Australian Public Service

    Tabled Date:
    Sunday 26th October 1997
    Report Number:
    16
    Portfolio:
    Prime Minister and Cabinet
    Department:
    Public Service and Merit Protection Commission and Other Agencies

    The objectives of the audit were to examine the benefits of diversity management in the APS and review the progress made towards equity in employment in the APS, including the EEO Program. It included: an assessment of the progress towards achieving equity across the APS and by individual agencies; an assessment of the quality of agency EEO programs; an assessment of the role of the PSMPC in approving agency EEO programs and monitoring trends across the service; a consideration of legal obligations and agencies compliance with these; and the possible risks to, and opportunities for, equity under the WRA. The audit concentrated on evidence of overall progress, the relative performance of individual agencies, and the examination of observed and underlying trends.


    Download 1997-98 Audit Report No. 16
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  • Management of Telecommunications Services in Selected Agencies

    Tabled Date:
    Thursday 23rd October 1997
    Report Number:
    9
    Portfolio:
    Across Agencies
    Department:
    Across Agency

    The audit objectives were to report on the efficiency and effectiveness of selected agencies' management of telecommunications services. The specific purpose was to: identify the potential for more effective management of telecommunications services; consider the appropriateness of Commonwealth agencies' management of telecommunications services to take advantage of technological opportunities; and identify the elements of sound administration in the management of telecommunications services. The audit criteria addressed agencies' performance against benchmarks of sound administrative practice in relation to procurement; planning; business process re-engineering; financial management; and performance management. The audit focussed primarily on telecommunications services, as distinct from capital items and equipment.


    Download 1997-98 Audit Report No. 9
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  • Immigration Compliance Function

    Tabled Date:
    Tuesday 21st October 1997
    Report Number:
    7
    Portfolio:
    Immigration and Citizenship
    Department:
    Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs

    The objective of this follow-up audit was to assess whether the department had taken appropriate action in response to the recommendations in Audit Report No.35 1993-94, titled The Compliance Function, Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs. The recommendations of the 1993-94 report, which formed the criteria for the audit, were primarily concerned with compliance after entry to Australia had been gained.



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  • Management of Occupational Stress in Commonwealth Employment

    Tabled Date:
    Monday 20th October 1997
    Report Number:
    8
    Portfolio:
    Across Agencies
    Department:
    Across Agency

    The audit objectives were to establish whether Comcare took an effective leadership role in helping to manage the cost of occupational stress to the Commonwealth; and whether agency management of occupational stress was efficient and effective. The ANAO criteria for the audit focused on how well Comcare understood the impact of occupational stress across APS employment, and supported agencies in their management of the disability. They also dealt with how well agencies understood and measured the impact of stress, and planned for its prevention or minimisation.


    Download 1997-98 Audit Report No. 8
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  • Risk Management in Commercial Compliance

    Tabled Date:
    Monday 20th October 1997
    Report Number:
    6
    Portfolio:
    Attorney General
    Department:
    Australian Customs Service

    The objective of the audit was to review the efficiency and administrative effectiveness of the Commercial Compliance Branch's risk management processes and to establish whether the approach provided a sound foundation for the development and application of risk management across the Australian Customs Service. The ANAO also examined the wider risk management context across ACS in order to appreciate how risk management processes in the Branch related to the agency as a whole.


    Download 1997-98 Audit Report No. 6
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  • Performance Management of Defence Inventory

    Tabled Date:
    Friday 17th October 1997
    Report Number:
    5
    Portfolio:
    Defence
    Department:
    Department of Defence

    The objective of this audit was to ascertain whether Defence performance management strategies and practices contribute to the effective and efficient management of the supply chain. In particular, it focussed on examining the extent to which the latter demonstrate identified world-class practices.


    Download 1997-98 Audit Report No. 5
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  • Service Delivery in Radio and Telecommunications

    Tabled Date:
    Friday 17th October 1997
    Report Number:
    4
    Portfolio:
    Communications, Information Technology and the Arts
    Department:
    Australian Telecommunications Authority (AUSTEL) Spectrum Management Agency

    The objective of the audit was to review AUSTEL and the Spectrum Management Agency's approaches to service delivery against recognised good practice and to identify opportunities for the new Australian Communications Authority to adopt the relevant features of these approaches in its service delivery.


    Download 1997-98 Audit Report No. 4
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  • Audits of the Financial Statements of Commonwealth Entities for the ear 1996-97

    Tabled Date:
    Monday 13th October 1997
    Report Number:
    22
    Portfolio:
    Across Agencies
    Department:
    Across Agency

    This summary audit report brings together the results of the audits of the financial statements of all Commonwealth organisations (that is, agencies and statutory authorities), and is provided to the Parliament to assist in its scrutiny of annual reports and in the consideration of each organisation's financial statements.


    Download 1997-98 Audit Report No. 22
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  • Program Evaluation in the Australian Public Service

    Tabled Date:
    Sunday 28th September 1997
    Report Number:
    3
    Portfolio:
    Across Agencies
    Department:
    Across Agency

    The objective of the audit was to examine the effectiveness of the management and control of program evaluation in the Australian Public Service. The ANAO made an assessment against criteria which were designed to test whether agencies were undertaking evaluations in a way which would enhance their overall effectiveness. The main issues examined were: approaches to evaluation planning; the conduct of individual evaluations; the quality of evaluation reports; and the impact of evaluations.


    Download 1997-98 Audit Report No. 3
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  • Government Business Enterprise Monitoring Practices

    Tabled Date:
    Wednesday 24th September 1997
    Report Number:
    2
    Portfolio:
    Across Agencies
    Department:
    Across Agency

    The audit reviewed the application by the Department of Finance and the portfolio departments of the 1993 Accountability and Ministerial Oversight Arrangements for Government Business Enterprises and any statutory monitoring and reporting requirements applying to the selected GBEs provided under their own establishing legislation. The objectives of the audit were to examine: the effectiveness of the GBE monitoring arrangements in providing appropriate performance information to the Government; the extent to which agencies and the selected GBEs comply with the monitoring arrangements and legislative requirements; and whether the GBE monitoring system provides an effective level of accountability to Ministers and to the Parliament.


    Download 1997-98 Audit Report No. 2
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