This section is about our forward work plan for 2024–27 and the status of audits that are in progress.
Our independent assurance helps parliament, the community and other stakeholders understand whether public sector entities and local governments are delivering their services effectively, efficiency, economically, and in accordance with legislative requirements.
Our insights and recommendations help entities improve their financial management and service delivery.
To ensure we select audit topics that matter most to Queensland, we apply a strategic planning approach. This involves assessing the critical risks and issues facing public service delivery and aligning our planned audit activity in response.
We prepare a forward work plan 3 years ahead to ensure transparency around our work. We review the plan annually to ensure that we focus on the right topics and conduct them at the right time.
Sometimes, new audits are added after our plan is published. We reflect these changes in the table below throughout the year.
We welcome your suggestions for potential audit topics and your contributions to any audits in progress.
2026–27
This audit will assess how the Queensland Government’s planning framework supports economic growth and development and liveability. We will also examine how effectively the state and local governments collaborate and coordinate their long-term plans to provide the services needed to support Queensland’s growing population.
Entities report to us on their progress in implementing recommendations from our performance audit reports. Each year we will highlight common themes across recommendations and provide insights into the progress entities report.
These reports summarise the results of our audits of financial statements for Queensland state government entities, including government departments, government owned corporations, and statutory bodies. The reports also include analysis of the Queensland Government’s financial performance and position and highlight the main transactions for the year.
These reports will examine how the Queensland Government is managing its debt and investments and will include insights into what the government has invested in and how the investments are managed.
These reports will provide insights into the status of major infrastructure projects of the state and local governments across Queensland. We will also provide data and analysis of the planning, coordination, and delivery of the state’s capital program.
These reports analyse the education entities’ financial performance and position and include assessments of their internal controls, and financial sustainability. They will also provide insights into education entities’ asset management and in meeting the educational requirements and needs of population growth in Queensland’s regions.
These reports analyse the health entities’ financial performance and position and include assessments of their internal controls, financial performance and sustainability, and asset management in health entities.
Queensland's local governments – councils – are the first line of connection to communities, providing Queenslanders with a wide range of services such as roads, water and waste, libraries, and parks. These reports summarise the audit results of Queensland’s 77 councils and the entities they control.
These reports will analyse data on state and local government service delivery and support for Queensland’s regions, and consider other regional growth and sustainability measures, including employment and economic activity.
These reports analyse the energy entities’ financial performance and position, and provide insights into the transition to renewable energy and the impact on energy entities’ profit and security of energy supply.