Examples of Activities performed for, or at the compliance audits request of, or on the application of, a activity investigations particular individual or body, such as: outputs development and promulgation of and the issue of permits, licences and regulatory standards business registrations policy development processes inspections as part of issuing drafting of legislation permits, licences and registrations development and promulgation of the approval of deviations from general advisory material common standards advice to the government and the the accreditation of agents or Parliament facilities. Examples of Costs of the activity output or business Costs of the activity output or business that process that can be reasonably attributed process that can be reasonably attributed could be to an individual or organisation (e.g. to a group of individuals or organisations included direct costs and an appropriate share of (e.g. direct costs and an appropriate indirect costs). share of indirect costs). Examples of Costs of the activity output or business Costs of the activity output or business costs that process that cannot be directly attributed process that cannot be reasonably should not to an These attributed to a individual or organisation. group of individuals or be included could include: organisations (this includes general revenue-raising activities). policy development drafting of legislation development and promulgation of general advisory material provision of general advice to the government and Parliament compliance and enforcement. Entity staff should consider the frequency and timing of charges in order to meet the cash flow needs of the activity, while also streamlining interaction with the stakeholders who are being charged. Depending on the activity, charges may be: paid by instalments collected in arrears paid up-front averaged over time, to avoid frequent changes fixed variable
Examples of activity outputs and business processes Activities performed for, or at the request of, or on the application of, a particular individual or body, such as: the issue of permits, licences and registrations inspections as part of issuing permits, licences and registrations the approval of deviations from common standards the accreditation of agents or facilities. compliance audits investigations development and promulgation of regulatory standards policy development drafting of legislation development and promulgation of general advisory material advice to the government and the Parliament Examples of that could be included Costs of the activity output or business process that can be reasonably attributed to an individual or organisation (e.g. direct costs and an appropriate share of indirect costs). Costs of the activity output or business process that can be reasonably attributed to a group of individuals or organisations (e.g. direct costs and an appropriate share of indirect costs). Examples of costs that should not be included Costs of the activity output or business process that cannot be directly attributed to an individual or organisation. These could include: policy development drafting of legislation development and promulgation of general advisory material provision of general advice to the government and Parliament compliance and enforcement. Costs of the activity output or business process that cannot be reasonably attributed to a group of individuals or organisations (this includes general revenue-raising activities). Entity staff should consider the frequency and timing of charges in order to meet the cash flow needs of the activity, while also streamlining interaction with the stakeholders who are being charged. Depending on the activity, charges may be: paid by instalments collected in arrears paid up-front averaged over time, to avoid frequent changes fixed variable
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