This report provides the opportunity for Parliament to re-assess how well it is placed to discharge its key role of exercising effective control over public finances and holding Executive Government to account, and identifies opportunities to strengthen the effectiveness of such control.

This report outlines findings associated with Payroll management and Administration of the goods and services tax in government departments and a selection of other agencies.

This report recognises the importance of effective risk management in the Victorian public sector. Its purpose is to provide a timely assessment about risk management practices at individual agency and whole-of-government or State-sector levels, and to make observations about the adequacy of these practices.

The scope of this audit included examining the records of non-government recipient agencies to assess whether funds had been used as intended and were expended efficiently and effectively.

This performance audit covered Victoria’s 15 non-metropolitan urban water authorities.

This report provides an appraisal of Victoria's building control system.

The audit was directed at assessing whether State Trustees had discharged its responsibilities in the best interests of represented persons.

The overall objective of the audit was to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the State Revenue Office in discharging its key responsibilities as the State's major revenue collection agency.

The report on the Government's Annual Financial Statement for the year ended 30 June 1997 outlines the results of the annual audit of the Statement, including an analysis of the operating result achieved in the year and the State's assets and liabilities at year-end, together with the privatisation of Government business enterprises and the sale of surplus and underutilised properties.

In 1993, the Government announced the Agenda 21 program of major civic projects aimed at revitalising the State. The audit focussed on four publicly-funded major civic projects.