Further information
This guidance is available electronically at:
- http://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/guidance/reporting/annualreports-ce, and
- http://purl.oclc.org/nzt/g-cear.
This document is part of a suite of guidance on accountability documents. Other material that should be considered when thinking about reporting on Crown entity performance is:
- Crown Entities Act 2004 in particular Part 4, which details the legislative requirements, and is available at: http://www.legislation.govt.nz/default.aspx.
- Subpart 1 of Part 5 of the Public Finance Act 1989 for those Crown entities that have been recently established, disestablished, have functions transferred, or for organisations named in Schedule 4 of this legislation. The legislation is available at: http://www.legislation.govt.nz/default.aspx.
- Treasury Circulars on accounting standards covering changes to accounting standards and also details on Crown reporting: http://www.treasury.govt.nz/publications/guidance/circulars.
- NZ IFRS compliant model financial statements prepared by Audit New Zealand . These are available at: http://www.auditnz.govt.nz/publications-resources/public-sector-auditing/model-financial-statements/crown-entities.
- The Auditor-General auditing standards AG-4 . The 2011 version of AG-4 (revised) is available here: http://www.oag.govt.nz/2011/auditing-standards/docs/28-ag-4rev-audit-service.pdf/view.
- The Auditor-General's observations on the quality of performance reporting , June 2008, available at: http://www.oag.govt.nz/2008/performance-reporting/docs/performance-reporting.pdf. Further reports produced by the Office of the Auditor-General that discuss performance information and how it is reported by public entities can be found athttp://www.oag.govt.nz/reports/performance-reporting
- Performance Measurement: Advice and examples on how to develop effective frameworks (2008). Guide http://www.ssc.govt.nz/performance-measurement.
- The EEO Commissioner's guidance and advice . The Equal Employment Opportunities Commissioner has a mandate to provide guidance and advice to departments and Crown entities on their EEO obligations. This information is available at http://www.neon.org.nz/crownentitiesadvice/.
- Presentation of papers to the House (19 June 2013), on the Parliamentary website. This provides the requirements for tabling the Annual Report: http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/PB/Presented/Papers/e/1/c/00HOOOCPBPresentedPapersPapers1-Presentation-of-papers-to-the-House.htm.
- The New Zealand Government Web Standards : These standards should be used for electronic publication of the annual report http://www.webstandards.govt.nz.
