Local Government Councils are reliant on a number of funding sources including State and Federal governments as well as their community constituents to enable them to provide a range of public services. Given these funding sources councils need to have in place a range of strategies and policies capable of providing good governance and appropriately...

The objective of the audit was to assess the effectiveness of the design and conduct of the third and fourth funding rounds of the Regional Development Australia Fund. The scope of the audit included the processes by which proposals were sought and assessed and successful projects were approved for funding. The audit criteria reflected the...

The objective of the audit was to assess how effectively and efficiently the ATO managed contact centres as part of its overall service delivery strategy. To form an opinion against the audit objective, the ANAO adopted the following high-level criteria: contact centres are effectively integrated with other ATO client communication channels, such as the online...

Executive summary This report sets out the results of the financial statement audits of the 18 Transport cluster agencies and their associated entities for the year ended 30 June 2014. Unqualified audit opinions were issued on all financial statements for the year ended 30 June 2014. The report also provides Parliament and other users of...

This audit assessed the effectiveness of the Australian Taxation Office’s administration of annual compliance arrangements with large corporate taxpayers. Audit objective and criteria To form a conclusion against this objective, the ANAO adopted the following high-level criteria: the governance arrangements for ACAs are well planned and effective; there are sound processes for identifying entities to...