Website In Reporting and Funding Distribution

  ANAO Report No.11 2014–15 The Award of Grants under the Clean Technology Program 125  a negative grant term was reported for 42 executed grants, with the commencement date reported as being after the end date; and  a grant term of up to 10 days was reported for another 11 executed grants.

6.8 Reporting

of at least seven per cent of grants was, therefore, inconsistent with the CGGs requirement to report the ‘grant term’ in months and, failing that, Finance’s advice that the total duration must be reflected in the website reporting. AusIndustry reporting

6.9 In

addition to publishing information on grants executed under the programs on the department’s website to comply with the CGGs requirements, grants approved under the programs were published on AusIndustry’s website to ‘assist potential customers better understand the type of projects that were supportable’. 143

6.10 Publication

of both the executed and approved amounts on two different websites had the potential to confuse stakeholders, as the reporting used inconsistent grant amounts reporting the executed amount inclusive of GST on the department’s website, but the approved amount exclusive of GST on the AusIndustry website. In this respect, the department advised ANAO that the grant recipient details for publication were generated using two different processes. The list of grantees published on the department’s website was generated using its finance payments system, while the list published on the AusIndustry website was based on information in the department’s grants management system, with the project description confirmed with the grant recipient prior to the information being published.

6.11 The

department has committed to streamlining its reporting process. In this context, since the closure of the programs, the AusIndustry website has been merged with similar websites to form a single consolidated website for business. 144 143 In line with the department’s advice, the AusIndustry website reporting included additional information that was not required by CGGs reporting, including the industry sector and form of energy efficiency or emissions reduction measures contained in approved projects. 144 See www.business.gov.au . ANAO Report No.11 2014–15 The Award of Grants under the Clean Technology Program