We have consulted with the agencies listed in Appendix D, and we considered their views when reaching our review findings. As required by the Audit Act 1994, we gave a draft copy of this report to those agencies and asked for their submissions and comments.
Responsibility for the accuracy, fairness and balance of those comments rests solely with the agency head.
We consulted with the audited agencies and considered their views when reaching our conclusions. The agencies’ responses are in Appendix A.
We asked the audited agencies to tell us whether they accepted our recommendations both before we tabled their report and at the time we conducted our review.
The Auditor‐General provides independent assurance to the Parliament of Victoria and the Victorian community on the performance of the state and local government public sectors.
Our performance audits assess whether agencies have effective programs and services and whether they are using their resources economically and efficiently. We also identify activities that work well and reflect better practice.
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.
This year for the first time we have developed a dashboard of our workforce data. A profile of all VAGO employees is included in Appendix A of the report, but this dashboard allows that data to be filtered and manipulated.
Our dashboard is an interactive visualisation tool summarising the financial statement data for all Victorian water entities in financial year 2018-2019.
Water entities provide a range of water distribution and sewage disposal services, including supplying water and sewerage services, managing bulk water storage and looking after specific recreational areas, such as caravan parks.
We have developed a data dashboard, which is an interactive visualisation tool summarising the financial statement data for all Victorian public hospitals in financial year 2018-2019.
FIGURE C1: Audit opinions issued for material entities
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| AFR | 2019-20 Annual Financial Report of the State of Victoria |
| DHHS | Department of Health and Human Services |
| DJCS |