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Annual report
Published: Thursday 16 October 2008
Published
This annual report documents the performance of the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) in the financial year ending on 30 June 2008. It includes highlights and areas of focus for the coming year; a forward by the Auditor-General; an overview of the report; a report on performance; details about management and accountability, and the financial statement for the year.
- Policies for schedulable leave types such as annual, purchased, long service, maternity and parental leave should include explicit provisions that require delegate approvals for leave to be provided prior to the commencement of leave and the circumstances where there may be exceptions to this.
- When preparing PBSs, corporate plans and annual reports, entities should consider the needs of the Parliament as the primary user of these documents. In particular, the Parliament’s need for a clear read within reporting a cycle, across reporting cycles and between entities, which is aided by clear, consistent, comparable and reconcilable reporting.
- Entity processes for preparing PBSs, corporate plans and annual reports should be coordinated so as to implement the clear read principle across the product suite and the complete cycle of performance measurement and reporting. Effective coordination facilitates a holistic approach to the preparation and publication of PBSs, corporate plans and annual reports.
Performance audit (Auditor-General Report No. 48 of 2003–04)
Published: Thursday 27 May 2004
Published
The objective of the performance audit was to report to Parliament our assessment as to how well the ATO manages and uses the AIIR data in taxation administration. The ANAO considered the following four key areas in addressing the audit objective. 1. Governance arrangements within the ATO, focussing on whole of ATO and whole-of-government aspects of the AIIR data, as distinct from solely business line applications. 2. Receipt of AIIR data and how well the ATO facilitates the collection of complete and valid AIIR data from investment bodies 3. Management of AIIR data through the construction by the ATO of valid entity records by using the AIIR data in conjunction with existing ATO client identification master files. 4: Use of the AIIR data on a systematic basis to inform active compliance activities.
Entity
Australian Taxation Office
Request for audit
Responded: Friday 22 April 2022
Response provided
The Auditor-General responded on 22 April 2022 to correspondence from Senator the Hon Eric Abetz dated 28 March 2022, requesting that the ABC’s defamation case payment be included as a topic in the ANAO’s Annual Audit Work Program 2022–23.
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Request for audit
Responded: Thursday 14 November 2019
Response provided
The Auditor-General responded on 14 November 2019 to correspondence from the Minister for Finance, Senator the Hon Mathias Cormann, regarding annual performance statements audits. The Minister requested that the Auditor-General conduct a program of pilot assurance audits of annual performance statements of Commonwealth entities subject to the PGPA Act, in consultation with the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit (JCPAA). The Auditor-General has agreed to the request and proposes to conduct a pilot to audit the 2019–20 performance statements of three entities.
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- Entities that are implementing multi-year programs should accurately describe the initiative and the stage of implementation in annual corporate reporting documents.
Speeches and papers
Published: Friday 10 July 2009
Published
Mr Ian McPhee - Auditor-General for Australia, presented to the Global Working Group 10th Annual Meeting, Norway
Speeches and papers
Published: Friday 24 November 1995
Published
Mr P.J. Barrett (AM) - Auditor-General for Australia, presented to the ASCPA Annual Public Sector Accounting Convention, Canberra