This report serves two broad purposes:
- it constitutes our “annual report” on the audits for 2003-04 of the Crown and its sub-entities – mainly as reflected in the Financial Statements of the Government of New Zealand for the Year Ended 30 June 2004 (the Financial Statements), parliamentary paper B.11, 2004; and
- it brings to attention a number of other matters (related both directly and indirectly to events occurring in the financial year 2003-04) that we believe warrant consideration by Parliament.