Reporting: Performance

Good Practice Guidance on Performance Reporting (May 2022)
This guidance provides examples of ‘what good looks like’ in the central government sector. It covers reporting on what is important, providing a coherent account of performance, and reporting on outcomes and impacts. The guidance was jointly developed by the Office of the Auditor-General, Audit New Zealand, and the Treasury.

Service performance reporting standard (PBE FRS 48): Guidance for 2022/23 Estimates and statements of performance expectations (December 2021)
This guidance supports departments and Crown entities to comply with the new standard for service performance reporting by outlining the implications of the standard on agencies’ 2022/23 Estimates and/or Statement of Performance Expectations (SPE).

A new standard for service performance reporting (October 2021)
This factsheet provides an overview of the new standard for service performance reporting that comes into effect from 1 January 2022.

This document aims to support agencies to improve their performance reporting to Parliament and the public. The document contains improvement prompts that agencies’ performance information reflects:

• funding and activity changes arising as a result of COVID-19
• a new standard for non-financial performance reporting coming into effect in 2022, and
• the opportunities to use evaluation information.

The purpose of this document is to assist agencies to apply a wellbeing approach to their external performance reporting.

Departments and Crown entities are required to set out the strategic objectives that their agency intends to achieve or contribute to. The purpose of this guidance is to assist agencies in thinking about their strategic intentions so that meaningful external information is produced.

Each Crown entity must explain in its statement of intent how the entity proposes to assess its performance. This guidance will also assist departments in setting up their performance reporting.

Sections 139 and 141 of the Crown Entities Act (as amended in 2013) are most relevant for Statements of Intent.

This guidance sets out the purpose of and the content, process and timeframe requirements for Crown Entity Statements of Intent.

This guidance covers what an SPE is, the information an SPE contains, and the timetables for completing an SPE or an amendment to an SPE.

This guidance provides advice on preparing annual reports and satisfying Crown Entity Act requirements to provide end-of-year performance information on appropriations.

Sections 38 to 41 of the Public Finance Act (as amended in 2013) are most relevant for Strategic Intentions.

This guidance sets out the purpose, content and process requirements for departmental strategic intentions.

This guidance sets out the purpose and content requirements for Estimates of Appropriations and the Supplementary Estimates of Appropriations.

This guidance sets out what is expected and/or required for annual reports and end-of-year performance information on appropriations in accordance with the Public Finance Act 1989 and with other legislative or administrative requirements and expectations.

Public Finance Act: Guidance for Specified Agencies (interdepartmental executive boards, interdepartmental ventures, and departmental agencies) (March 2023)
This guidance is to help anyone involved in establishing and administering a specified agency understand the Public Finance Act 1989 requirements that apply to specified agencies.