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ARCHIVED - A Guide to Preparing Treasury Board Submissions
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The 2014 Guidance for the Preparation of TB Submissions includes a revised submission form, the roles and responsibilities of stakeholders, enhanced guidance on costing, tools for submission writers and new service standards for submissions. Departments and agencies have until April 1, 2014, to fully implement the updated guidance.
However, as communicated in the Guideline on Chief Financial Officer Attestation for Cabinet Submissions, a CFO Attestation letter must be annexed to all submissions that have financial implications, effective January 1, 2014.
Table of Contents
- Part I: Preamble
- 1. Treasury Board
2. Treasury Board Submissions - 3. Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
- 4. Role of Departments, Agencies, and Crown Corporations
- Part II: Planning for the Treasury Board
- 5. Timing of a Treasury Board Submission
- 6. Considerations for Partner Organizations
- 7. Organizational Requirements
- Part III: Writing a Treasury Board Submission
- 8. Preparing to Write a Submission
9. Step-by-step Guide to Writing a Submission - 10. Finishing Touches
- 10.1 Signing of Treasury Board submissions
- 10.2 Delegated signing authorities
- 10.3 Signing of joint and omnibus submissions
- 10.4 Sending a submission to the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
- 10.5 Late submissions
- 10.6 Withdrawal of a submission
- 10.7 Change of minister
- 10.8 Change of government
- 10.9 Cabinet confidence and security designation
- 10.10 Treasury Board meetings
- 10.11 Treasury Board decisions
- Part IV: Seeking Authorities
- 11. Expenditure Authorization
- 12. Submissions Related to Real Property
- 13. Project Approval
- 14. Financial and Administrative Management
- 14.1 Transfer payments
- 14.2 Revolving funds
- 14.3 Vote netted revenue
- 14.4 Kinds of write-off transactions requiring approval by Parliament
- 14.5 Non-standard use of a departmental bank account
- 14.6 Petty cash
- 14.7 Debt write-off
- 14.8 Changes to the face of Receiver General cheques
- 14.9 Contracting
- 14.10 Crown corporations
- 14.10.1 Roles and responsibilities
- 14.10.2 Corporate plans and operating and capital budgets
- 14.10.3 Amendments to corporate plans and budgets
- 14.10.4 Multi-year items
- 14.10.5 Restricted transactions
- 14.10.6 Orders in council
- 14.10.7 Terms and conditions
- 14.10.8 Corporate plan summary
- 14.10.9 Process and timeline for corporate plans and summaries
- 14.10.10 Late submissions
- 14.10.11 Do's and don'ts of drafting a corporate plan TB submission
- 14.11 Remission orders
- 14.12 Taxes
- 14.13 Fees and other debts
- 14.14 Fees prescribed under subsection 19(1) and section 19.1 of FAA
- 15. Classification of EX-4 and EX-5 Positions
- 16. Information Management, Information Technology, and Service Delivery
- 17. Management, Resources, and Results Structure
- 18. Determination of Disagreements between Ministers and Accounting Officers on the Interpretation or Application of a Treasury Board Policy, Directive, or Standard
- Appendix A: Orders in Council and Other Governor in Council Submissions
- Appendix B: Costing Tables
- Appendix C: Accrual Accounting Information
- Appendix D: More Information on the "Remarks" Section
- Appendix E: Official Languages
- Appendix F: Sample Treasury Board Submissions
- Appendix G: Crown Corporations
