This Part provides information on the extent to which agencies accept and implement our performance audit recommendations, including their timeliness.

2.1 Conclusion

Nothing has come to our attention to indicate that, overall, agencies are not effectively implementing past performance audit recommendations.  

Most agencies accepted audit recommendations and have taken action to complete or progress their implementation. However, this action is not always timely, which all agencies can work to improve.

We published 71 performance audits between 2015–16 and 2017–18. 

In this review, we examined progress made by agencies on recommendations from 44 of those audits—including the 17 performance audit reports we published in 2017–18, for which we assessed the status of recommendations for the first time. The other 27 are audits from earlier years that had recommendations outstanding.

Context

Through our performance audits, we identify opportunities for public agencies to improve how they work. We do this by uncovering risks, weaknesses and poor performance, as well as by sharing examples of better practice. We then make recommendations to agencies to address areas for improvement. 

Acronyms

Independent assurance report to Parliament

Ordered to be published

VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT PRINTER June 2020

PP No 137, Session 2018–20

Our dashboard is an interactive visualisation tool summarising the financial statement data for all Victorian water entities.

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.

Independent assurance report to Parliament

Ordered to be published

VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT PRINTER October 2019

PP No 69, Session 2018–19

This appendix provides information on the audit opinions issued for the 267 entities consolidated into the AFR.

Entities are listed in the following order: