Reader's guide

Budget Papers financial reporting format
Service Delivery Statements financial reporting format
Appropriation process
Glossary

Reader's guide to the Queensland State Budget

This guide provides readers of the Budget Papers with useful background information to assist in understanding and interpreting the 2008-09 State Budget.

This includes:

a glossary of key terms
an illustration of the appropriation process
a brief overview of the financial statement reporting formats used in the Budget Papers
explanations of the accounting terminology used in the Budget Papers.

Last reviewed 3 June 2008