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MEASURING OUR PERFORMANCEAGS has 5 performance measures (financialand non-financial) that we use to assessand report on progress in our corporate planstrategies.In 2012–13, we achieved good or betterperformance results in 4 measures andsatisfactory or better in 1 measure.Scorecard of AGS performancePerformance measure 2012–131. Financial performance •2. Business efficiency •3. Leverage / solvency •4. Customers and stakeholders •5. Staff •Code• good or better performance or trends• satisfactory performance or trends (includingrevenue within 3% of corporate plan target)• unsatisfactory performance or trendsFINANCIAL OUTCOMESThe financial result for 2012–13 was positivegiven difficult trading conditions (includingthe financial constraints on agencies and thecontinued growth of in-house legal areas).— our trading revenue ($111.9 million) was$3.9 million higher than the corporateplan target— our profit including interest was$6.1 million – more than double thecorporate plan target— we paid dividends during the year of$9 million.Since 1999, when AGS became a governmentbusiness enterprise, we have made profitstotalling $158 million, from which wehave provided $50.5 million in tax or taxequivalents and $108.8 million in dividends,special dividends and repayments of equity.In addition, we repaid a government loan of$15.1 million.Performance measure 2012–13Revenue from legal service trading$111.9mTotal shareholder return 7.6%Dividends paidLegal service earnings beforeinterest and tax (EBIT)Profit from legal service tradingbefore interest, tax, depreciationand amortisation (EBITDA)Debtor and WIP days$9.0m$4.1m$7.6m81 daysAGS Annual report 2012–13 17
AGS at workLeo HardimanAndrew Chapman Joe Edwards Richard Harding Leah EdwardsJim SullivanLeah LyonsRanjeet Jordan Linda Richardson PSM Helen Curtis Lillian RichesKate CabotDisabilityCare AustraliaDisabilityCare Australia, the national disability insurance scheme, was established by theGovernment to provide individualised support for eligible people with permanent and significantdisability. AGS played a fundamental role in advising on legal aspects of the developmentof the scheme, the associated Act and accompanying rules and assistance with commercialarrangements to support the implementation.Establishing DisabilityCare AustraliaDuring 2012–13, Leo Hardiman (Deputy General Counsel), Andrew Chapman (Counsel) andJoe Edwards (Senior Lawyer) provided a range of constitutional and other legal advice on thedevelopment and implementation of the National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013.A team of AGS lawyers was engaged in January 2013 by the Department of Families, Housing,Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) to draft legislative instruments (known as‘rules’) for the Act. This aspect of the work is discussed on page 49 of this report.AGS also gave advice on machinery-of-government issues concerning the establishment ofDisabilityCare Australia.Richard Harding (Special Counsel Dispute Resolution) and Leah Edwards (Senior General Counsel)advised on employment arrangements for staff of DisabilityCare Australia.AGS property lawyers led by Jim Sullivan (Senior Executive Lawyer) and assisted by Leah Lyons(Senior Lawyer) and Ranjeet Jordan (Senior Lawyer), also provided advice to assist DisabilityCareAustralia to procure binding leases for 7 pilot sites in 4 States within a very short timeframe. AGSassisted in negotiations with each landlord’s solicitors for the purposes of DisabilityCare Australiaformally documenting the short-form leases of the pilot sites.AGS commercial lawyers Linda Richardson PSM (General Counsel Commercial), Helen Curtis(Senior Executive Lawyer), Lillian Riches (Senior Lawyer) and Kate Cabot (Lawyer) provided probityadvice to FaHCSIA for a number of procurements related to the design and implementation ofthe national disability insurance scheme.18 AGS Annual report 2012–13
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