Inquiry into New Zealand Defence Force payments to officers seconded to the United Nations
July 2010: We carried out an inquiry into several matters associated with the payment of accommodation assistance by NZDF to four officers who it seconded to the UN in New York for different periods between 2001 and 2008...
Inland Revenue Department: Managing child support debt
July 2010: We carried out a performance audit to examine how effectively and efficiently the Inland Revenue Department was managing child support debt...
Inquiry into the Plumbers, Gasfitters, and Drainlayers Board
August 2010: We looked in some detail at how the Board's functions were working. We found problems that included unclear or non-existent policies, poor communication, poor processes, and decisions and policies that were not clearly well-grounded in the legislation...
Matters arising from the 2009-19 long-term council community plans
August 2010: This report outlines the results of, and matters arising from, our audits of local authorities' latest long-term council community plans (LTCCPs)...
Hutt City Council's practices for recovering money owed by commercial ratepayers
1 September 2010
District health boards: Availability and accessibility of after-hours services
September 2010: All DHBs have after-hours services available for 95% of the population within 60 minutes' travel time. That said, most DHBs' plans could better consider affordability and transport barriers and the risks to those after-hours services continuing...
New Zealand Transport Agency: Information and planning for maintaining and renewing the state highway network
September 2010: NZTA had good descriptive and condition information about the state highway roads, and it had a planning framework that enabled it to use this information for day-to-day maintenance and renewal of the road network. However, not all of its information was complete, especially for structures such as bridges and tunnels. Its long-term planning was also incomplete at the time of our audit...
Spending on supplies and services by district health boards: Learning from examples
September 2010: This report provides examples of good practice that we encourage, and some examples of poor practice, to help DHBs improve their own spending on supplies and services from external suppliers and providers...
Effectiveness of the Get Checked diabetes programme
September 2010: This document has been prepared to help district health boards (DHBs) further improve the effectiveness of the Get Checked diabetes programme...
Annual Report 2009/10
October 2010, ISSN 1179-8963 (print), ISSN 1179-8971 (online).
Inquiry into payments to chief executives of dissolving local authorities in Auckland
October 2010: Overall, almost all of the payments were made under contractual arrangements and in accordance with the Auckland transitional legislation...
Department of Internal Affairs: Administration of two grant schemes
November 2010: We carried out a performance audit to determine whether the Department's administration of grants is consistent with the principles and expectations that we outlined in our good practice guide, "Public sector purchases, grants, and gifts: Managing funding arrangements with external parties"...
Sport and Recreation New Zealand: Improving how it measures its performance
December 2010: We carried out a performance audit to examine the effectiveness of Sport and Recreation New Zealand in improving New Zealanders' participation in sport and physical recreation...
Central government: Results of the 2009/10 audits (volume 1)
December 2010, ISBN 978-0-478-32684-0 (print) and ISBN 978-0-478-32685-7 (online).
Matters arising from Auckland Council's planning document
December 2010: We discuss the purpose, audit, and content of Auckland Council's planning document, and set out our view of important matters to consider as the next long-term plan for Auckland is prepared...
How the Department of Internal Affairs manages spending that could give personal benefit to Ministers
December 2010: This is the report of the second part of the Auditor-General's inquiry into certain types of expenditure in Vote Ministerial Services. Overall, we have concluded that the current system for providing support to Ministers has flaws at each of the levels we examined. The system functions but, cumulatively, the problems are significant...
Central government: Case studies in reporting forecast performance information
February 2011: The purpose of this discussion paper is to help public entities improve the information they use to forecast what their performance will be in providing services to the public – and how they report that forecast to Parliament and to the public...
District Health Boards: Learning from 2010–13 Statements of Intent
February 2011: This document has been written to help district health boards (DHBs) as they prepare their 2011-14 and future Statements of Intent (SOIs)...
Provision of billboard for Len Brown's Mayoral Campaign
22 February 2011
Central government: Results of the 2009/10 audits (Volume 2)
March 2011: ISBN 978-0-478-32692-5 (print) and ISBN 978-0-478-32693-2 (online).
Local government: Results of the 2009/10 audits
April 2011, ISBN 978-0-478-32694-9 (print), ISBN 978-0-478-32695-6 (online).
Ministry of Social Development: Managing the recovery of debt
April 2011: We carried out a performance audit to assess how well the Ministry of Social Development manages the recovery of money owed to the Ministry.
Public entities' progress in implementing the Auditor-General's recommendations
April 2011: This report sets out our view on the progress that five public entities have made in responding to recommendations that we made in 2008 and 2009.
Statement of Intent 2011-14
May 2011, ISSN 1179-7347 (print), ISSN 1179-7355 (online).
Our review of the Northland Events Centre Project
17 May 2011
Final audits of Auckland's dissolved councils, and managing leaky home liabilities
June 2011: This report summarises our auditing of the financial and service performance statements in the final annual reports of the eight dissolved Auckland local authorities and 19 terminated council-controlled organisations. The report also looks at the effects on local authorities of leaky home liabilities - effects greatest in cities, especially Auckland...
Progress in delivering publicly funded scheduled services to patients
June 2011: This report assesses progress made in achieving the government strategy "Reduced Waiting Times for Public Hospital Elective Services". There has been good progress over 10 years but there is more to do to ensure that patients are assessed in a nationally consistent way, and seen and treated in priority order...
Annual Plan 2011/12
June 2011: ISSN 1178-8488 (print), ISSN 1179-7339 (online).
Central government: Cost-effectiveness and improving annual reports
June 2011: This paper is aimed at government departments and Crown entities that prepare annual reports of their performance for external publication under the Public Finance Act or the Crown Entities Act...
Inland Revenue Department: Making it easy to comply
June 2011: We carried out a performance audit to see how effective Inland Revenue is in making it easy for taxpayers to comply with their obligations to pay tax. As part of the audit, we tested Inland Revenue's website with two groups of taxpayers – tradespeople and rental property owners – who had new tax obligations...
