Guidance & Instructions

Public Finance Overviews: A Guide to the Public Finance Act (2005), Putting It Together (1996) and an earlier (superseded) publication.
Budget: Guidance for the state sector on the Budget process, technical and style guides for the Estimates, and financial recommendations.
Accountability Information: Treasury guidance for departments, offices of Parliament and Crown entities on accountability information including annual reports, statements of intent and output plans.
Financial Management & Reporting: Guidance on the financial management of departments and Crown entities and on meeting legislative requirements for financial reporting by state sector entities.
Financial Powers: Guidance to the limits of departments' and Crown entities' financial powers.
Appropriations: Appropriations are Parliament's authority to the Crown and Offices of Parliament to spend.
Regulatory Impact Analysis: Treasury and other guidance on regulatory impact analysis and the preparation of regulatory impact statements by departments.
Treasury Circulars: Communications from the Treasury to departments, Crown entities and state-owned enterprises.
Treasury Instructions: Treasury Instructions generally specify what the chief executives of the departments of the Crown must do. Treasury Instructions are signed on behalf of the Secretary to the Treasury and all chief executives and all employees of any department are required to comply with Treasury Instructions.
Cost Benefit Analysis: Cost benefit analysis is a decision making tool that aims to assess the value of a proposal or competing proposals on a consistent basis.
Demonstrating Value-for-Money: Guidance on how performance information is used to improve the value delivered by major strategies, policies and public services.
Capability: The Capability Toolkit is a compendium of capability questions and information to promote and inform capability management and help State Services agencies improve their performance.
Valuation: Valuation guidance for various Crown assets.
Costing of Political Party Policies: High level guidance on how to cost political party policy proposals. The Treasury aims to facilitate a consistent approach to costing policy proposals across the public sector.
Strategy Primer: The Strategy Primer has been relocated under Demonstrating Value-for-Money.