Central government reports

Ministry of Social Development: Changes to the case management of sickness and invalids' beneficiaries

October 2009: Two years ago, the Ministry made changes designed to help sickness and invalids' beneficiaries prepare for, make the transition to, and stay in work. We looked at how well the changes were operating and whether they were starting to have the intended effect...

Central government: Results of the 2007/08 audits

May 2009, ISBN 978-0-478-32625-3.

Workforce planning in Crown Research Institutes

May 2009: We carried out a performance audit of the workforce planning within the Crown Research Institutes (CRIs). We focused on how CRIs identify their workforce needs, establish initiatives to address their needs, and monitor and evaluate those initiatives...

Department of Corrections: Managing offenders on parole

February 2009: We carried out a performance audit to examine how effectively the Department of Corrections (the Department) manages offenders on parole. This audit has led to 20 recommendations...

Ministry of Health: Monitoring the progress of the Primary Health Care Strategy

October 2008: We audited how the Ministry of Health has monitored progress toward the Primary Health Care Strategy’s goals. Overall, the Ministry needs to review its measures to ensure that it can assess progress toward all of the goals in the Strategy’s vision statement...

The Accident Compensation Corporation's leadership in the implementation of the national falls prevention strategy

June 2008: The Accident Compensation Corporation has carried out useful work leading the strategy, but progress has been uneven. We identified two matters for ACC's immediate attention - its leadership mandate and the evaluation framework...

Ministry of Social Development: Preventing, detecting, and investigating benefit fraud

June 2008: Overall, the Ministry has good systems, policies, and procedures for preventing, detecting, and investigating benefit fraud. We have made eight recommendations...

Central government: Results of the 2006/07 audits

May 2008, ISBN 978-0-478-32602-4.

Inland Revenue Department: Effectiveness of the Industry Partnership programme

April 2008: We looked at an IRD programme that sought to reduce the incidence of undeclared income from cash transactions...

Audit committees in the public sector

April 2008: This guide sets out the principles and good practices needed to set up and effectively operate an audit committee in the public sector...

Effectiveness of the New Zealand Debt Management Office

June 2007: We looked at NZDMO’s performance in managing the Crown’s public debt and financial asset portfolios. This report is very technical because of the specialist functions undertaken by NZDMO. Non-technical readers can be assured that the audit did not identify any fundamental concerns with the performance of NZDMO...

Department of Labour: Management of immigration identity fraud

June 2007: The Department has systems, processes, procedures, and relationships with relevant external agencies in place for the prevention, detection, and investigation of identity fraud within the skilled migrant and United Nations quota refugee entry categories. However, we noted several areas where improvements need to be made...

Assessing arrangements for jointly maintaining state highways and local roads

June 2007: Transit New Zealand and district councils have separate statutory responsibilities for state highways and local roads respectively. In three districts, they have joined forces in different ways to manage and maintain local roads and state highways. We looked at how well these collaborative agreements are working, and what cost savings and other benefits they bring...

New Zealand Customs Service: Collecting customs revenue

June 2007: We conducted a performance audit that assessed the Service’s arrangements for collecting customs duties, excise, and Goods and Services Tax on imported goods. The Service’s arrangements for collecting customs revenue are sound, and its information technology systems are performing effectively...

Ministry of Health and district health boards: Effectiveness of the "Get Checked" diabetes programme

June 2007: In order to make the programme more effective, improvements need to be made to the quality of programme data and how the data is used. Better use can be made of the data to inform the provision of diabetes care at primary and secondary care levels...

Managing conflicts of interest: Guidance for public entities

June 2007: This guidance will be useful for all public entities, and relevant not only to people who exercise governance and management roles, but to everyone who works for or with a public entity...

Te Puni Kōkiri: Administration of grant programmes

May 2007: This audit examined the effectiveness and efficiency of the systems and processes Te Puni Kōkiri uses to administer its grant programmes. Several areas could be improved...

New Zealand Qualifications Authority: Monitoring the quality of polytechnic education

May 2007: We carried out a performance audit to provide assurance to Parliament that NZQA, having delegated its quality assurance functions, has maintained enough oversight of this delegation and ensures that there are processes in place so that the Board is informed of any quality issues in the polytechnic sector...

Central government: Results of the 2005/06 audits

April 2007, ISBN 0-478-18174-4.

Department of Internal Affairs: Effectiveness of controls on non-casino gaming machines

February 2007: This report focused on three main areas of controls - licensing of non-casino gaming machine operators and venues, operator and venue costs, and the distribution of funds to the community...