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Guide to the Annual Report
This report outlines the performance of the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts for the financial year ending 30 June 2004. The report is prepared in accordance with the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet's Requirements for Annual Reports, released in June 2004.
Under these requirements, the Department must report against the outcomes, administered items, outputs, and performance and budget information in the Department's 2003-04 Portfolio Budget Statements (PBS), Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements (PAES) and Portfolio Supplementary Additional Estimates Statements (PSAES). It is suggested that the Annual Report is read in conjunction with these documents.
The report is structured as follows:
Section 1 - Overview
This section contains a review of the year by the Department's Secretary and an outline of the Department's roles and functions, organisational structure, portfolio agencies, outcome and output structure.
Section 2 - Performance review
This section provides a report on the Department's performance against its outcomes. These outcomes cover arts and culture, sport and communications. This section also includes the performance of the former National Office for the Information Economy in relation to the information economy functions, which were transferred to the Department on 8 April 2004.
The performance information is reported against the success measures in the 2003-04 PBS and PAES. The success measures are supported by a number of performance indicators which can be viewed in the PBS and PAES. To assist a 'clear read' between the documents, a table linking the performance information in the annual report to the PBS or PAES performance indicators is provided at the beginning of each of the outcome reports in section 2.
Section 3 - Management and accountability
This section reports on the Department's management practices, including its governance arrangements and management of its human and financial resources.
Section 4 - Appendices
The appendices provide supplementary information such as human resource statistics, appearances before parliamentary committees and mandatory reports such as the Department's ecological and environmental performance. The appendices also include the annual report from the Networking the Nation Board, at Appendix 9.
Section 5 - Financial statements
This section contains the Department's audited financial statements for 2003-04.
Following the financial statements is a list of acronyms and an index to assist the reader.