Departmental Overview: Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy 2017-18
This Overview summarises the Department’s responsibilities on how it spends its money and its key developments of work.
Published:
24 Sep 2018
24 Sep 2018
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Transformation guidance for audit committees
Transformation programmes can be highly complicated and risky. This guidance assists those overseeing them by setting out questions committees should ask during set-up, delivery and live-running phases.
Published:
24 May 2018
24 May 2018
Good Practice from the Excellence in Reporting in the Public Sector Award – Building Public Trust Awards
The Building Public Trust Awards recognise outstanding corporate reporting that builds trust and transparency. This interactive document illustrates a range of good practice examples across annual reports in both the public and private sector.
Published:
26 Mar 2018
26 Mar 2018
Cyber security and information risk guidance for Audit Committees
Audit committees should be scrutinising cyber security arrangements. To aid them, this guidance complements government advice by setting out high-level questions and issues for audit committees to consider.
Published:
13 Sep 2017
13 Sep 2017
Good practice from the Excellence in Reporting in the Public Sector Award – Building Public Trust in Corporate Reporting Awards
The Building Public Trust Awards recognise outstanding corporate reporting that builds trust and transparency. This interactive document illustrates a range of good practice examples in public sector reports.
Published:
18 Apr 2017
18 Apr 2017
Understanding central government’s accounts – an introductory guide for those with an oversight role
Our new guide is aimed at helping non-accountant readers of government’s accounts understand better what is being reported in them and what it means.
Published:
4 Apr 2014
4 Apr 2014
A commentary for the Committee of Public Accounts on the Work Programme outcome statistics
This commentary, on the first set of Work Programme data, has been produced for the Committee of Public Accounts.
Published:
13 Dec 2012
13 Dec 2012
Compliance checklist
Our compliance checklist should help Departments and other bodies to assess where they have complied with and adhered to”Corporate Governance in Central Government Departments: Code of Good Practice 2011 (the Code)”, and to identify areas of non-compliance that need to be explained and described in their annual governance statement.
Published:
1 Mar 2012
1 Mar 2012
Reporting financial information to the Board
2nd edition 2012
Boards can assess the financial management information reported to them against best practice using the guide.
Published:
1 Jan 2012
1 Jan 2012
Board evaluation questionnaire
Public sector Boards must conduct an annual performance appraisal and Board members may find it helpful to complete this questionnaire as part of the process.
Published:
1 Sep 2009
1 Sep 2009