Reader’s Guide

The Commissioner for Superannuation Annual Report 2008–09 has been prepared in accordance with the Requirements for Annual Reports, as approved by the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit, and satisfies the annual reporting requirements set out in the Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997.

This report has been designed to clearly describe our activities and performance—with a focus on results achieved—particularly in relation to the goals outlined in the 2008–09 Portfolio Budget Statements (PBS) and Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements (PAES).

This report is divided into the sections outlined below:

Overview

This section provides a review by the Commissioner of Superannuation of the significant issues and developments that occurred in 2008–09, including an overview of our financial performance and expected position for 2009–10. This section also outlines our business, our operational and governance arrangements, our outcomes, outputs, purpose, strategy and structure. Relationships with other parties responsible for public sector superannuation are also described.

Report on performance

This chapter summarises our performance for the year against the 2008–09 PBS and is presented in sections that align with ComSuper’s strategic business themes:

• Building loyalty through excellence, which describes our approach to service delivery and provides key performance information for the year
• Improving our internal processes, which describes our corporate governance arrangements and reports on other internal management processes
• Further enhancing the capability of our people, which reports on our management of human resources
• Improving our financial performance, which discusses our financial performance for the year.

Financial statements

This chapter contains our audited financial statements for the year ending 30 June 2009.

Appendices

The report includes 13 appendices, which contain information required under specific legislation and other reporting requirements.

Reference material

To enhance the usability of this report, an index, a glossary of terms and acronyms and a compliance index—for ease of locating mandatory requirements for annual reports— have been included.

Online annual report

This report is available online at: www.comsuper.gov.au.

Inquiries about this report

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