Current Better Practice Guides

The following Better Practice Guides are available on the Australian National Audit Office website.

Implementing Better Practice Grants Administration
Planning and Approving Projects 

an Executive Perspective
Innovation in the Public Sector

June 2010


June 2010

Enabling Better Performance, Driving New Directions

Dec 2009

SAP ECC 6.0
     Security and Control
Preparation of Financial Statements by Public Sector Entities


June 2009
June 2009

Business Continuity Management
   Building resilience in public sector entities


June 2009

Developing and Managing Internal Budgets

June 2008

Agency Management of Parliamentary Workflow

May 2008

Public Sector Internal Audit
   An Investment in Assurance and Business Improvement


Sep 2007

Fairness and Transparency in Purchasing Decisions
    Probity in Australian Government Procurement


Aug 2007

Administering Regulation

Mar 2007

Developing and Managing Contracts
   Getting the Right Outcome, Paying the Right Price


Feb 2007

Implementation of Programme and Policy Initiatives:
   Making implementation matter


Oct 2006

Legal Services Arrangements in Australian Government Agencies

Aug 2006

Administration of Fringe Benefits Tax

Feb 2006

User-Friendly Forms
   Key Principles and Practices to Effectively Design
   and Communicate Australian Government Forms



Jan 2006

Public Sector Audit Committees

Feb 2005

Fraud Control in Australian Government Agencies

Aug 2004

Better Practice in Annual Performance Reporting

Apr 2004

Management of Scientific Research and Development
   Projects in Commonwealth Agencies


Dec 2003

Public Sector Governance

July 2003

Goods and Services Tax (GST) Administration

May 2003

Building Capability-A framework for managing
   learning and development in the APS


Apr 2003

Administration of Grants

May 2002 

Performance Information in Portfolio Budget Statements

May 2002

Some Better Practice Principles for Developing
   Policy Advice


Nov 2001 

Rehabilitation: Managing Return to Work

June 2001

Building a Better Financial Management Framework

Nov 1999

Building Better Financial Management Support

Nov 1999 

Commonwealth Agency Energy Management

June 1999

Controlling Performance and Outcomes

Dec 1997

Protective Security Principles
(in Audit Report No.21 1997-98)


Dec 1997