Departmental overview

A brief overview of the department. Departmental outputs are depicted in a chart outlining the output structure.

Resources and Planned Performance

Section 1:  Resources

• This section includes two components:
  • 1.1 Appropriations and other resources;
  • 1.2 Resource Statement.
  The intention of section one is to provide readers with an overview of the functions and responsibilities of the department, its contribution towards its outcomes for the budget year and the resources available.
• The resource statement details the source and nature of the all resources available into a table. 

Section 2:  Outcome and Planned Performance

• The outcome resource statement provides lower level resourcing information for general users at the results level, grouped by output group rather than appropriation type as has been the case previously.
• Details the contribution of the department’s outputs to the outcome, performance information for the outcome and administered activities, and planned evaluations. Links the resources appropriated and their application to the department’s outputs and to administered items.

Section 3:  Explanatory tables and budgeted financial statements

• This section has been reworked to increase the readability of technical financial information.  The section now includes:
  • explanatory tables to provide supplementary information on the reconciliation between total available appropriation and outcome attribution, special account flows and Australian Government Indigenous Expenditure.
  The department’s budgeted financial statements in accrual format, covering the budget year, the previous year and three out-years. It should also be noted that the property, plant, equipment and intangibles statements are no longer mandatory in the financial statements as the information provided was of little value.

Glossary

Explains key terms.