Glossary and acronyms
| Capability | What an organisation needs in terms of access to leadership, people, culture, relationships, processes and technology, physical assets, and structures to efficiently deliver the goods and services required to achieve the results sought by the Crown entity - whether those results are set by reference to Government policy or by statute. |
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| CEA | Crown Entities Act 2004. |
| Classes of outputs of class | Means a grouping of similar outputs. (Definition from section 2(1) of the Public Finance Act 1989) |
| Intervention | Interventions include legislation, policies, transfers, programmes and service delivery arrangements. |
| Impacts | The contribution made to an outcome by a specified set of outputs, or actions, or both. (Definition from section 2(1) of the Public Finance Act.1989) |
| Monitoring department | A department or agency that provides support to a Minister in carrying out that Minister's role and responsibilities in relation to Crown entities. |
| Objectives | “Objectives” are not defined in the Crown Entities Act or the Public Finance Act, so the term has the ordinary meaning of “goal” or “aim”. Its inclusion in the Crown Entities Act alongside “impacts” and “outcomes” recognises that not all outputs and activities are intended to achieve “outcomes” (refer to definition of outcomes below). Some outputs and activities do not target a direct societal, economic or environmental effect, and their effectiveness should not be judged on that basis. Nevertheless, they can be important in the context of Crown entities' performance, and objectives will feature in the shaping of some entities' results-focused planning. Examples include expenditure for administrative or support services internal to the Crown (intra-Government activities) and capital expenditure. |
| Outcomes | Means a state or condition of society, the economy or the environment and includes a change in that state or condition. (Definition from section 2(1) of the Public Finance Act 1989.) Another way to look at this is that outcomes are the consequences for the society, economy, or environment resulting from the existence and operations of the Crown entity. |
| Outputs | Means the goods or services that are supplied by a Crown entity; but does not include goods and services that are produced for purchase or consumption solely within the Crown entity group. (Definition from section 136(1) of the Crown Entities Act 2004.) Another way to look at this is that outputs are goods and services produced by the Crown entity - that is, they are supplied for third parties. Outputs exclude goods and services produced entirely for consumption within the Crown entity. |
| PFA | Public Finance Act 1989. |
| Schedule 4 organisation | Organisations listed or described in Schedule 4 of the Public Finance Act |
| Standard | A target or an intended level of performance within a stated timeframe. |
