Program · Outcome 1 - Formulating and making auditing, review and assurance standards for Australian entity financial reports and sustainability reports as well as for other auditing and assurance engagements
Program 1.1: Office of the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board
The key strategies to achieve Outcome 1 are: • Developing, issuing and maintaining in the public interest, Australian auditing and assurance standards and guidance that aid in reducing the cost of capital and enable Australian entities to compete effectively domestically and internationally through enhancing audit and assurance consistency and quality. • Contributing to the development of a single set of auditing and assurance standards and guidance for world wide use.
Office of the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board, 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements, PDF page 362 reported
$4.0m
2026-27 Budget estimate
+$348k (+9.4%) on 2025-26 estimated actual
Traced to named suppliers and grant recipients
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Published lines
Each row is one line of the program’s expense table in the 2026-27 Portfolio Budget Statements – Program Expense Line Items, as published.
| Line | Kind | 2025-26 estimated actual |
2026-27 Budget estimate |
Change | Treatment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Departmental appropriation | departmental | $3.6m | $3.9m | +$348k +9.8% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1313 |
| Expenses not requiring appropriation in the Budget year | departmental | $139k | $139k | no change 0.0% | reported | Table 2.1.1, row 1314 |