We largely use our own professionally qualified and trained staff to deliver performance audits. However, we also engage experts to advise or work with our performance audit teams on complex and technical issues and use contractors to supplement staff resources where required.
We deliver a range of attest services to public sector agencies. We conduct financial audits in accordance with the Australian Auditing Standards and relevant professional and legislative requirements. Additional information about the delivery of our financial audits is in Appendix B.
This section sets out our attest engagement work program for 2021–22. This encompasses reports to Parliament on the results of our financial and performance statement audits of agencies and the number and type of audit opinions we expect to issue.
This section sets out our proposed performance audit program for the next three years. In 2021–22, we plan to deliver 18 performance audits.
For each audit listed, we outline the audit specification, which includes our objective for the audit, the issues we intend to examine and the agencies we expect to include.
In 2019–20, the Victorian government spent $73 million on campaign advertising. Every year, government departments must report on any campaigns they have run, for which they spent over $100,000 on purchasing media placements.
Our dashboard brings together this information for all government departments and the five government agencies that spent the most on campaign advertising for 2017–18, 2018–19, 2019–20 and 2020–21. It allows you to compare spending across departments and agencies, and conduct your own analysis.
The Treasurer's Advance gives parliamentary and legal authority to the government to access funds to meet urgent expenditure claims.
By its nature, it is not aligned to any agency or output. Consequently, it is not subject to the parliamentary scrutiny that applies to the rest of the budget before it is spent.
Instead, Parliament can only authorise its use after any funds are spent. Due to this, there should be strong processes and controls over access to this funding and clear accountability to Parliament and the community on its use.
In our first Assurance Review, we looked at how public entities monitored and responded to performance audit recommendations made by VAGO between 2015-16 and 2017-18.
Nothing has come to our attention to indicate that overall, agencies are not effectively implementing past performance audit recommendations.
Most agencies report having governance arrangements that allow their senior management and audit committees to monitor progress in implementing our audit recommendations.
Our dashboard is interactive visualisation tool summarising the financial statement data for all Victorian universities.
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Our dashboard is interactive visualisation tool summarising the financial statement data for all Victorian technical and further education (TAFE) institutes.
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We have developed four data dashboards, which are interactive visualisation tools summarising the financial statement data for all Victorian public hospitals in financial year 2017-2018. They have been grouped into the following cohorts: