ROLE AND MISSION

Finance, as one of the Commonwealth's central agencies, plays an important enabling role for the Government. Our mission is to help the Government shape and deliver its agenda by providing high quality advice and services. Finance does this by contributing to three key outcomes:

• sustainable Government finances—assisting the Government to meet its fiscal objectives, through activities such as preparing the Commonwealth Budget and whole-of-government financial reporting;
  
  
• improved and more efficient Government operations—developing whole-of-government frameworks and strategies, providing advice to drive increased efficiencies and managing several businesses on a commercial basis;
  
  
• an efficiently functioning Parliament—providing support services such as entitlements and travel for Members of Parliament and their staff.

For a diagrammatical representation of Finance's outcomes-outputs structure, please refer to Figure 1.