Victorian government tabling calendar: DTF FRD 30D walk-through
Victorian agencies and statutory authorities run on the DTF FRD 30D model report. Here is how the tabling calendar sits across an annual report production schedule.
The Department of Treasury and Finance Victoria publishes Financial Reporting Direction 30 (FRD 30D) as the model report for Victorian public sector entities. The model sets format, mandatory disclosures, and the order of contents. The Annual Reporting Direction sits over the top with the tabling deadlines.
Key dates for a 30 June balancer
- Late August: audit of financial statements completes with VAGO.
- Mid September: report signed by accountable officer and chair.
- Late September: report submitted to the responsible Minister.
- Third sitting day after 31 October: tabled in Parliament.
What FRD 30D actually requires
FRD 30D specifies the structure: report of operations, financial statements, attestations, disclosure index. Within the report of operations, there are mandatory sections covering responsible bodies declarations, governance and organisational structure, workforce data, occupational health and safety, environmental performance, and the disclosure index that maps each requirement back to its source.
Working with VAGO
VAGO audits the financial statements and the performance statement. The design team needs to ship final-typeset proofs to VAGO with audit changes still possible. We build a two-window approach: a financial-statements pass with VAGO in late August, then a wrap pass with the Minister's office in September. Two clean cut-overs, no scope creep.