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Performance audit report

Auditor-General Report No. 25 of 2000–01

Published

Wednesday 20 December 2000

Portfolio

Across Entities

Entity

Across Agency

The study examined aggregated benchmarking measures of cost, efficiency quality and better practice for nineteen Commonwealth organisations and compared the results with that of an international group. The objective of the study was to obtain and report on over time quantitative and qualitative data relating to finance function activities as they operate in Commonwealth organisations.