1873 Items found
Published: Wednesday 8 May 2013
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Tax Practitioners Board's implementation and administration of the regulatory arrangements for tax practitioners under the Tax Agent Services Act 2009.

Entity
Australian Taxation Office; Tax Practitioners Board
Contact

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Published: Wednesday 24 January 2007
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The objectives of this audit were to:

  • examine the effectiveness of ASIC's processes for receiving reports of suspected breaches of the Corporations Act; and
  • assess the efficiency with which statutory reports are referred and investigated by ASIC.

The audit commenced in February 2006. ANAO undertook an assessment of ASIC's processes for receiving and referring for investigation statutory reports. ANAO also undertook a detailed examination of a random sample of 416 statutory reports received by ASIC in the period 2002–03 to 2004–05.

The audit scope did not extend to the role of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions in prosecuting offences referred to it by ASIC.

Entity
Australian Securities and Investments Commission
Published: Monday 23 June 2014
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The audit objective was to determine whether Australian Government agencies were implementing appropriate policies and processes to identify and manage conflicts of interest.

Entity
Across Agencies
Contact

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Published: Monday 23 January 2006
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The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of DMO's JORN and JFASmaintenance and support arrangements. The audit examined the maintenanceand operation of the JORN and JFAS radars, and their facilities.

Entity
Department of Defence
Published: Thursday 30 May 2013
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Human Services' arrangements for engaging and managing External Collection Agencies to recover debts arising from Centrelink payments.

Entity
Department of Human Services
Contact

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Published: Wednesday 4 February 2009
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The objectives of this audit were to:

  • examine whether the appointment of CMAX Communications Pty Ltd as a provider of communications support and advice for the 2020 Summit was consistent with the Commonwealth procurement framework and sound principles of public administration; and
  • assess the effectiveness of the administration of the CMAX Communications contract by PM&C.
Entity
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
Published: Wednesday 3 May 2006
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The objective of the audit was to assess whether selected Australian Government entities were effectively supporting their business requirements through planning for, and management of, the acquisition, disposal and use of their IPE assets. The audit reviewed each entity's policies and practices against a series of audit criteria across the following components of asset management: control environment; planning; acquisitions; operations; and disposals.

Entity
Across agencies
Published: Tuesday 25 June 2013
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Australian Taxation Office’s administration of debt relief arrangements.

Entity
Australian Taxation Office
Contact

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Published: Thursday 24 June 2010
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess whether Defence is effectively managing the delivery of health services to ADF personnel in Australia (chiefly Garrison Health Services).

Entity
Department of Defence
Published: Thursday 8 May 2014
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the adequacy and effectiveness of the AEC’s implementation of the recommendation made in ANAO Audit Report No. 28 2009–10 relating to the transport and storage of completed ballot papers.

Entity
Australian Electoral Commission
Contact

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Published: Friday 30 November 2007
Published

The objective of the audit was to examine the integrity of electronic records stored on the CSA's database—Cuba—and to report on the effectiveness of CSA's management of the data.

Entity
Department of Human Services; Child Support Agency
Published: Tuesday 24 June 2014
Published

The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of physical security arrangements in selected Australian Government agencies, including whether applicable Australian Government requirements are being met.

Entity
Australian Crime Commission, Geoscience Australia, Royal Australian Mint
Contact

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Published: Thursday 13 November 1997
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The objective of the audit was to evaluate the Department's performance in pursuit of selected PBS program objectives and outcomes, including to investigate and evaluate the economy, efficiency, administrative effectiveness and accountability of the management of the listing process as a significant element of the program. This involved a review of the developments in the listing process over recent years including: the establishment of a comprehensive database of major applications for PBS listing between 1991 and 1996, which facilitated a detailed analysis of the time taken to list drugs on the PBS schedule; a technical consultancy into the DHFS' Guidelines to industry for preparation of applications for PBS listing, and into the use of the economic analysis in assessing proposals for PBS listing; and a review of the selection process including the operations of the PBS advisory committees.

Entity
Department of Health and Family Services
Published: Tuesday 23 June 2009
Published

The objective of this audit was to assess whether selected organisations had effective security risk management programs, including whether a selection of protective security risk treatment controls was working as designed.

Entity
Across Agencies
Published: Wednesday 30 November 2011
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess Customs and Border Protection’s use of risk management to assist in the processing of sea and air cargo imports.

Entity
Australian Customs and Border Protection Service
Published: Monday 7 September 2009
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As an element of the arrangements implemented to support the role of the ANAO in reviewing campaigns' compliance with the Guidelines announced on 2 July 2008, the ANAO advised the chair of the JCPAA that the ANAO will provide regular summary reports to Parliament. Section 25 of the Auditor-General's Act 1997 provides for the tabling of such reports.

Entity
Across Agencies
Published: Tuesday 10 February 2009
Published

This audit focused on the approval of business system projects -projects aiming to achieve a business objective such as reduced costs or to implement a new program, in contrast with projects with a narrower technology focus such as replacing an agencyʹs desktop computers.

Entity
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations; Department of Health and Ageing; Department of Veterans' Affairs
Published: Wednesday 30 April 2014
Published

The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Human Services’ administration of the child support objection review process.

Entity
Department of Human Services; Department of Social Services
Contact

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Published: Wednesday 16 April 2008
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess how well EMA is meeting its objective of providing national leadership in the development of measures to reduce risk to communities and manage the consequences of disasters.

Entity
Attorney-General's Department
Published: Tuesday 21 May 2013
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office’s administration of environmental water holdings.

Entity
Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
Contact

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Published: Tuesday 1 March 2016
Published

The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of the Department of Social Services' administration of Early Intervention Services for Children with Disability.

Entity
Department of Social Services
Contact

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Published: Tuesday 1 February 2005
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The audit examined the relationship between the strategic guidance and capabilities provided by Army, through analysis of the Army capability management and reporting framework. The objectives of the audit were to: Assess Army capability management and reporting processes; determine whether these processes efficiently and effectively manage resources to provide Army capability; and accurately indicate the capability provided by Army.

Entity
Department of Defence
Published: Tuesday 7 February 2012
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The objective of the audit was to examine the effectiveness of the administration of the Gateway review process by Finance and FMA Act agencies. The audit also examined the extent to which those Gateway reviews that have been conducted have contributed to improvements in the delivery of major projects undertaken by FMA Act agencies.

Entity
Department of Finance and Deregulation
Published: Thursday 13 October 2005
Published

The objectives of the audit were to: assess the effectiveness of the key evaluation methods used to review the efficacy of the Australian Government's national counter-terrorism coordination arrangements; and examine the effectiveness of the links between the key evaluation methods, and how the key evaluation methods contribute to the process of continuous improvement.

Entity
Attorney General's Department; The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
Published: Thursday 23 June 2011
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The objective of this audit was to assess the effectiveness of DIAC’s administration of the character requirements of the Citizenship Act.

Entity
Department of Immigration and Citizenship
Published: Tuesday 13 November 2012
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the Department of Health and Ageing’s (DoHA’s) implementation and ongoing management of the Aged Care Complaints Scheme and the effectiveness of DoHA’s complaint management systems in supporting service delivery and regulatory outcomes.

Entity
Department of Health and Ageing
Published: Tuesday 13 June 2000
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The audit reviewed the High Wealth Individuals Taskforce, a comprehensive compliance program with the Australian Taxation Office. The objective of the audit was to examine and report on the management and operations of the taskforce. In doing so, the audit reviewed the Australian Taxation Office's own evaluation of the taskforce and assessed whether, and to what extent, the taskforce delivered the outcomes specified by the Government.

Entity
Australian Taxation Office
Published: Thursday 23 June 2005
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The objective of the audit was to consider the status of workforce planning by APS agencies against the background of the ANAO's 2001 Better Practice Guide Planning for the Workforce of the Future, in light of there commendations made in the MAC Organisational Renewal 2001 and the Senate Finance and Public Administration References Committee report Recruitmentand Training in the Australian Public Service 2003. Workforce planning was defined as a continuous process of shaping the workforce to ensure it is capable of delivering organisational objectives now and in the future.

Entity
Across Entities
Published: Tuesday 22 December 1998
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The audit addressed administration of migrant settlement services by DIMA, in particular:

  • strategic management, including corporate planning, performance measurement and reporting arrangements; and
  • operational management of some of the individual schemes operated by DIMA (the Adult English Migrant Program and Translating Interpreting Services were not covered as part of this audit).
Entity
Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs
Published: Thursday 28 June 2007
Published

This is the first of two audit reports concerning the Tax Office's administration of SMSFs pursuant to the provisions of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993.
This audit report examines the efficiency and effectiveness of the Tax Office's approach to regulating and registering self managed superannuation funds. Specifically the ANAO examined the:

  • Environment in which SMSFs operate, including the Tax Office's regulatory roles and responsibilities;
  • Tax Office's governance of its SMSF regulatory role; and
  • Systems, processes and controls the Tax Office uses to register SMSFs, and enforce the lodgement of fund income tax and regulatory returns.
Entity
Australian Taxation Office