Audit Committee
Our Audit Committee fulfils the requirements of section 46 of the Financial Management and Accountability Act, which provides for each chief executive to establish and maintain an audit committee.
The broad functions of the Audit Committee are to:
- enhance our control framework
- improve the objectivity and reliability of externally published financial and other information
- assist the Auditor-General to comply with all legislative and other organisational objectives.
The Audit Committee met five times in 2008–09. At 30 June 2009, its membership comprised:
- Bruce Jones, Chair and external independent member
- Steve Chapman, Deputy Auditor-General
- Jocelyn Ashford, Executive Director, Assurance Audit Services
- Nathan Williamson, Executive Director, Performance Audit Services.
Observers included Geoff Wilson, Independent Auditor; internal auditors from Ernst & Young, Peter Bell and William Tse; Anya Moore, Executive Director, Corporate Management Branch; and Anthony Howatson, Chief Finance Officer.
Dianne Rimington, Group Executive Director, Corporate Support Group, was an observer of the Audit Committee until she resigned in April 2009. The Executive Director, Corporate Management Branch, Anya Moore, has taken her place.