Universities and grammar schools: 2016 results of financial audits
Report 18: 2016–17. Tabled date: 2017-06-22. 3 recommendations published as HTML.
Tabled Report 18: 2016–17
- Tabled date
- 2017-06-22
- Report year
- 2016-17
Entities audited
Not identified in the published HTML audit scope.
Recommendations
QAO's text Addressed to: Ipswich Grammar School and Rockhampton Girls Grammar School
reassess their revenue and expenditure policies and implement strategies to achieve operating surpluses as soon as possible.
QAO's text Addressed to: adopt or improve existing cost management frameworks to better support their individual cost management strategies. These
adopt or improve existing cost management frameworks to better support their individual cost management strategies.
These should be able to report, for example, by
- revenue and funding source
- direct and indirect costs
- activity
- student and staff.
QAO's text Addressed to: the universities
closely manage non-academic expenditure and set relevant targets based on national benchmarks.
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