2018 Items found
Published: Friday 16 April 2004
Published

The objectives of the audit were to: assess whether financial delegations associated with the expenditure of public monies were determined, applied and managed in accordance with applicable legislation, Government policy and applicable internal controls; and identify better practices and recommend improvements as necessary to current practices.

Entity
AusAID; Australian Competition and Consumer Commission; ComSuper; Department of the Treasury; Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions; Department of Finance and Administration
Published: Tuesday 28 February 2006
Published

The objective of the audit was to assess the ATO's strategies to address tax evasion in the cash economy, with emphasis on: the ATO's strategic focus; aspects of governance, management processes and compliance activities; and responses to the ANAO Report No.35 2001–02 ATO Progress in Addressing the Cash Economy.

Entity
Australian Taxation Office
Published: Wednesday 31 January 2007
Published

The objective of the audit was to:

  • assess, in a selection of FMA Act and CAC Act agencies, how well the revised Commonwealth Procurement Guidelines had been implemented; and
  • identify any better practice or common problem areas to assist other agencies in their future procurement activities.

The audit focused on procurement requirements that had changed as a result of the revised CPGs, rather than being a more general audit of compliance with all procurement requirements.
The audit was conducted in the following entities:

  • Australian Federal Police;
  • Bureau of Meteorology;
  • Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO);
  • Department of Defence;
  • Department of Education, Science & Training;
  • Family Court of Australia; and
  • National Museum of Australia.
Entity
NO-DEPTS-LISTED
Published: Wednesday 4 May 2016
Published

The audit objective was to assess the effectiveness of selected departments’ implementation of deregulation initiatives.

Entity
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet; Department of Communications and the Arts; Department of Health; Department of Industry, Innovation and Science
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Responded: Friday 24 July 2020
Response provided

The Auditor-General responded on 11 March 2020 to follow-up correspondence from Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, requesting an audit into the Federal and South Australian governments’ agreement to reduce SA’s Murray-Darling river water allocation by 100GL and Commonwealth funding provided to increase the use of the state’s desalination plant to replace the water. The Auditor-General responded to the original correspondence from Senator Hanson-Young on 19 December 2019. The Auditor-General provided a follow-up response to Senator Hanson-Young on 24 July 2020. 

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Published: Wednesday 16 June 2010
Published

The audit objective was to assess the Tax Office's effectiveness in administering the tax obligations of non-residents.

Entity
Australian Taxation Office
Responded: Tuesday 30 April 2019
Response provided

The Auditor-General responded on 30 April 2019 to correspondence from Ms Cathy McGowan AO, MP dated 8 April 2019, requesting that the Auditor-General conduct an investigation to examine the politicisation of taxpayer funded grant announcements (Community Sport Infrastructure grants program). 

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Published: Wednesday 13 December 2017
Published

The objective of the audit was to examine the effectiveness of the Australian Taxation Office’s use of settlements to resolve taxpayer disputes.

Entity
Australian Taxation Office
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Published: Thursday 10 March 2005
Published

In view of the large amount of public money being paid to the states in GST revenue, the objective of the audit was to assess the adequacy and effectiveness of processes and procedures used by Treasury in making payments of GST revenues and associated amounts to the States.

Entity
Across Agency
Published: Thursday 29 April 2004
Published

The objective of the current audit was to assess Army's progress in implementing the ANAO recommendations and to examine and assess any developments in relation to AIRN since the 1999?2000 audit report and the 2001 JCPAA report. Army updated AIRN policy in 2001 and 2004, and the ANAO has assessed, where appropriate, the implementation of the 1999?2000 audit recommendations for these two policy reissues.

Entity
Department of Defence