Our strategic direction
In 2023, we published The Auditor-General's strategic intentions to 2028. It sets out what we want to achieve and the outcomes we are working towards. Our strategic intentions are informed by the Auditor-General's mid-term review and build on the foundations set out in the Auditor-General's strategic intentions to 2025.
Our focus over the next four years is to:
- strengthen our core assurance role to ensure that the public audit system is sustainable over the long term;
- increase our impact with public organisations by influencing positive change in their performance and accountability practices;
- enhance our impact in te ao Māori to help Parliament and the public hold public organisations to account in a way that iwi, hapū, and whānau Māori, as well as Parliament and the wider public, have trust and confidence in; and
- build on our reputation as a source of trusted information about public sector performance and accountability.
The progress we have made on our strategic priorities is described in the performance results for the services we deliver (see Our services in Part 5). We also describe the main areas we have focused on to improve our organisational capability.
Our Annual plan 2023/24 set out our discretionary programme of work for the year. In this report, we describe our progress against that annual plan (see Appendix 3).
The key strategic risks we manage
Our key strategic risks are:
- loss of independence;
- audit failure;
- loss of capability; and
- loss of reputation.
We actively manage these risks through the processes that support our work. This includes having an Audit and Risk Committee, which provides advice on risk and how to mitigate it. See Appendix 1 for the Committee's report for the year ended 30 June 2024.