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Performance audit (ANAO Report No. 4 of 2017–2018)
Published: Wednesday 12 July 2017
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The audit objective was to assess whether the Department of Employment effectively designed and monitors the progress of the jobactive program.
Entity:
Department of Employment
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Performance audit (ANAO Report No. 3 of 2017–2018)
Published: Wednesday 12 July 2017
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The objective of the audit was to assess whether the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations (ORIC) supports good governance in Indigenous corporations consistent with the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (CATSI).
Entity:
Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations; Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
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Performance audit (ANAO Report No. 2 of 2017–2018)
Published: Tuesday 11 July 2017
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The objective of the audit was to assess whether Defence has a fit-for-purpose framework for the management of materiel sustainment.
Entity:
Defence
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Performance audit (ANAO Report No. 1 of 2017–2018)
Published: Monday 10 July 2017
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of the Environment and Energy’s arrangements for the preparation and reporting of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions estimates and projections.
Entity:
Department of the Environment and Energy
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Assurance review (ANAO Report No. 62 of 2016–2017)
Published: Friday 30 June 2017
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The Auditor-General undertook a limited assurance engagement of the Department of Finance’s management of the lease between the Commonwealth of Australia and the New South Wales Rifle Association over the Malabar Headland. The limited assurance engagement examined whether the management was, in all material respects, in accordance with the Commonwealth Property Management Framework.
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Department of Finance; Department of the Environment and Energy
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Performance audit (ANAO Report No. 61 of 2016–2017)
Published: Thursday 29 June 2017
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The objective of the audit was to assess whether the Department of Health effectively procured services to operate a National Cancer Screening Register.
Entity:
Department of Health
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Financial statement audit (ANAO Report No. 60 of 2016–2017)
Published: Wednesday 28 June 2017
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The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) publishes two reports annually addressing the outcomes of the financial statement audits of Australian government entities and the Consolidated Financial Statements (CFS) of the Australian Government to provide Parliament an independent examination of the financial accounting and reporting of public sector entities. This report focuses on the results of the interim audit phase, including an assessment of entities’ key internal controls, of the 2016–17 financial statements audits of 25 entities including all departments of state and a number of major Australian government entities.
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Across Entities
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Performance audit (ANAO Report No. 59 of 2016–2017)
Published: Tuesday 27 June 2017
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The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Human Services’ implementation of myGov as at November 2016.
Entity:
Department of Human Services; Digital Transformation Agency (DTA); Australian Taxation Office (ATO)
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Performance audit (ANAO Report No. 58 of 2016–2017)
Published: Monday 26 June 2017
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The objective of the audit was to examine the implementation of the annual performance statements requirements under the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 and the enhanced Commonwealth performance framework.
Entity:
Department of Agriculture and Water Resources; Australian Federal Police; Department of Finance
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Better practice guide
Published: Monday 26 June 2017
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The independent Review of Whole-of-Government Internal Regulation, known as the ‘Belcher Red Tape Review’, made a recommendation in relation to the ANAO’s better practice guides that ‘the ANAO take the opportunity, where regulators and policy owners have developed or are developing policy guidance material, to review whether there is a continuing need for it to develop, release and maintain its own separate guidance’. The ANAO has considered the Belcher review and the potential for duplication where the regulator has provided guidance on particular subject areas and consulted widely with key stakeholders over the past year about the future of our better practice guides. We consulted with the Australian Parliament and public sector entities, including audit committees within these entities, and then considered the feedback received.
The broadly consistent feedback was that where another entity has, or will be, producing a similar resource and has committed to continue to do so, the ANAO could add more value by monitoring the effectiveness of this resource (and potentially partnering with the entity in its production), whilst ceasing to produce its own resource. On this basis, the ANAO has decided to discontinue and cease distributing a range of better practice guides, and continue to produce only a small number of guides in partnership with policy owners, where possible.
The following better practice guides will be removed from the ANAO website by 1 July 2017:
- Implementing Better Practice Grants Administration
- Fraud Control in Australian Government Entities
- Public Sector Internal Audit
- Human Resource Management Information Systems
- Public Sector Environmental Management
- Planning and Approving Projects—an Executive Perspective
- Strategic and Operational Management of Assets by Public Sector Entities
- Innovation in the Public Sector
- Business Continuity Management
- Developing and Managing Internal Budgets
- SAP ECC 6.0: Security and Control
If you require access to the withdrawn better practice guides listed above, you can find them through the National Library of Australia's Australian Government Web Archive.
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