Guidance & Instructions

Public Finance Overviews: A Guide to the Public Finance Act (2005), Putting It Together (1996) and an earlier (superseded) publication.
Budget: Guidance for the state sector on the Budget process, technical and style guides for the Estimates, and financial recommendations.
Accountability Information: Treasury guidance for departments, offices of Parliament and Crown entities on accountability information including annual reports, statements of intent and output plans.
Financial Management & Reporting: Guidance on the financial management of departments and Crown entities and on meeting legislative requirements for financial reporting by state sector entities.
Financial Powers: Guidance to the limits of departments' and Crown entities' financial powers.
Appropriations: Appropriations are Parliament's authority to the Crown and Offices of Parliament to spend.
Treasury Circulars: Communications from the Treasury to departments, Crown entities and state-owned enterprises.
Treasury Instructions: Treasury Instructions generally specify what the chief executives of the departments of the Crown must do. Treasury Instructions are signed on behalf of the Secretary to the Treasury and all chief executives and all employees of any department are required to comply with Treasury Instructions.
Valuation: Valuation guidance for various Crown assets.
Cost Benefit Analysis Primer: This primer seeks to improve the quality of policy and spending proposals by providing guidance on the issues that should be considered and how proposals will be assessed by the Treasury.
Strategy Primer: Good strategy allows Ministers and senior managers to understand and endorse specific goals and plans of action. The Strategy Primer helps departments and Crown entities develop good strategies.
Costing of Political Party Policies: High level guidance on how to cost political party policy proposals. The Treasury aims to facilitate a consistent approach to costing policy proposals across the public sector.