Appendix C: Disclosure of capital budget funding

NCEs with full DCB funding for asset replacement (as at 3 October 2023)

The following entities receive or are eligible for full DCB funding for asset replacement, as they do not have any significant cost recovery activities. Entities choosing to prepare a Net Cash Appropriation Arrangements note need to disclose full depreciation/amortisation expenses in their note.

  • Administrative Appeals Tribunal 
  • Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission 
  • Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency 
  • Australian Bureau of Statistics 
  • Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research 
  • Australian Communications and Media Authority 
  • Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (also has body corporate status)
  • Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission 
  • Australian Electoral Commission 
  • Australian Federal Police
  • Australian Institute of Criminology 
  • Australian Institute of Family Studies 
  • Australian Law Reform Commission 
  • Australian National Audit Office 
  • Australian National Preventive Health Agency 
  • Australian Office of Financial Management 
  • Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (also has body corporate status) 
  • Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency 
  • Australian Research Council 
  • Australian Secret Intelligence Service 
  • Australian Securities and Investments Commission (also has body corporate status)
  • Australian Security Intelligence Organisation
  • Australian Signals Directorate 
  • Australian Taxation Office 
  • Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade) 
  • Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre 
  • Australian Transport Safety Bureau 
  • Cancer Australia 
  • Clean Energy Regulator
  • Climate Change Authority
  • Commonwealth Grants Commission 
  • Department of Defence*
  • Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 
  • Department of Education 
  • Department of Employment and Workplace Relations 
  • Department of Home Affairs 
  • Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts 
  • Department of Parliamentary Services
  • Department of Social Services 
  • Department of the House of Representatives 
  • Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet 
  • Department of the Senate 
  • Department of the Treasury 
  • Department of Veterans' Affairs 
  • Digital Transformation Agency 
  • Fair Work Commission 
  • Office of the Fair Work Ombudsman
  • Federal Court of Australia 
  • Future Fund Management Agency 
  • Geoscience Australia
  • Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority 
  • High Court of Australia
  • Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority 
  • Inspector-General of Taxation
  • IP Australia 
  • National Archives of Australia 
  • National Capital Authority 
  • National Competition Council 
  • National Health and Medical Research Council 
  • National Health Funding Body 
  • National Indigenous Australians Agency
  • National Mental Health Commission 
  • NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission 
  • Office of National Intelligence 
  • Office of Parliamentary Counsel 
  • Office of the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board 
  • Office of the Australian Accounting Standards Board
  • Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
  • Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman 
  • Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions 
  • Office of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security 
  • Office of the Official Secretary to the Governor-General 
  • Office of the Special Investigator
  • Organ and Tissue Authority
  • Parliamentary Budget Office
  • Productivity Commission
  • Professional Services Review
  • Royal Australian Mint – exclude depreciation/amortisation expenses related to the Royal Australian Mint Special Account
  • Safe Work Australia
  • Seafarers Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Authority
  • Sport Integrity Australia
  • National Emergency Management Agency
  • Workplace Gender Equality Agency

*The Department of Defence implemented standard net cash arrangements disclosure (with two additional adjusting items: Inventory consumption and Net write-down and net impairment of assets) commencing 2020-21 financial year.

NCEs with partial DCB funding for asset replacement (as at 3 October 2023)

The listed entities receive partial DCB for asset replacement (that is, they have significant functions/activities that are cost recovered or externally funded from sales of goods/services). Asset replacements for these functions/activities are to be self-funded from cost recovery charges or external revenue earned. Entities choosing to prepare a Net Cash Appropriation Arrangements note need to exclude depreciation/amortisation expenses relating to these assets in their note.

  • Attorney-General’s Department – exclude depreciation/amortisation expenses related to Australian Government Solicitor’s function
  • Australian Financial Security Authority – exclude depreciation/amortisation expenses related to the Personal Property Securities Register and other cost-recovered activities
  • Australian Fisheries Management Authority – exclude depreciation/amortisation expenses related to assets purchased using external revenue
  • Australian Public Service Commission – exclude depreciation/amortisation expenses related to assets purchased using external revenue
  • Australian Skills Quality Authority – exclude depreciation/amortisation expenses relating to assets purchased using external revenue
  • Bureau of Meteorology – exclude depreciation/amortisation expenses related to assets purchased for the provision of aviation and Defence weather services
  • Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry – exclude depreciation/amortisation expenses relating to its biosecurity activities
  • Department of Finance – exclude depreciation/amortisation expenses relating to the Property Special Account
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade – exclude depreciation/amortisation expenses related to the Overseas Property Special Account
  • Department of Health and Aged Care – exclude depreciation/amortisation expenses related to the Australian Industrial Chemicals Introduction Scheme and the Therapeutic Goods Administration
  • Department of Industry, Science and Resources – exclude depreciation/amortisation expenses related to the Australian Astronomical Observatory
  • National Blood Authority and Australian Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation Authority – exclude depreciation/amortisation expenses relating to assets purchased using funding from the States and Territories
  • Royal Australian Mint – exclude depreciation/amortisation expenses related to the Royal Australian Mint Special Account
  • Services Australia (including Centrelink and Medicare) – exclude depreciation/amortisation expenses related to assets purchased using external revenue
  • Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency – exclude depreciation/amortisation expenses related to assets purchased using external revenue

CCEs that are Collection Institutions and receive a CDAB (as at 3 October 2023)

The following corporate Commonwealth entities are Collection Institutions (CIs) and receive a CDAB. Entities choosing to prepare a Net Cash Appropriation Arrangements note need to only disclose their heritage and cultural depreciation expenses in their note – no depreciation/amortisation expenses for other categories of assets, nor other expenses, need to be shown.

  • Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
  • Australian National Maritime Museum
  • Australian War Memorial
  • National Film and Sound Archives of Australia
  • National Gallery of Australia
  • National Library of Australia
  • National Museum of Australia
  • National Portrait Gallery
  • Old Parliament House (excluding any H&C building depreciation)

NCEs that receive a CDAB (as at 3 October 2023)

The following NCEs are designated CIs and receive a CDAB. As they also receive a DCB, entities choosing to prepare a Net Cash Appropriation Arrangements note need to disclose their full depreciation/amortisation expenses in their note.

  • National Archives of Australia

NCEs that receive an Administered Capital Budget (as at 3 October 2023)

The following NCEs receive an Administered Capital Budget (ACB). Administered appropriation items are not subject to the operating loss arrangements.

  • Department of Finance
  • Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
  • Department of Home Affairs
  • Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts
  • Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
  • National Capital Authority
  • Office of the Official Secretary to the Governor-General

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