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Section III: Supplementary Information
Financial Highlights
| % change | 2011 | 2010 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assets | |||
| Assets | 118% | 321 | 147 |
| Total assets | 118% | 321 | 147 |
| Liabilities and Equity of Canada | |||
| Liabilities | 20% | 701 | 585 |
| Equity of Canada | 13% | -380 | -438 |
| Total liabilities and equity of Canada | 118% | 321 | 147 |
| % change | 2011 | 2010 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Expenses | 21% | 3,113 | 2,576 | |||
| Net Cost of Operations | 21% | 3,113 | 2,576 | |||
Total net cost of operations was $3,113 thousand at the end of 2010-11, an increase of $537 thousand from fiscal year 2009-10. The increase is mainly due to additional staff being brought on strength in order to fill existing vacancies. By the middle of fiscal year 2010-11, the Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC) was near full capacity with regard to staffing levels, which resulted in an increase in salary related expenses such as employee benefit plan, allowances for severance pay and vacation pay. Additionally, the departure of two staff members resulted in payouts of severance pay which impacted on SIRC’s expenses in 2010-11.
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Total assets were $321 thousand at the end of fiscal year 2010-11, an increase of $174 thousand from 2009-10. The increase of assets is mainly due to the Due from Consolidated Revenue Fund. The increase in the Due from Consolidated Revenue Fund in fiscal year 2010-11 is due to higher accounts payable, accrued liabilities with other government departments and accrued salary and wages 2010-11. The Due from Consolidated Revenue Fund is a new Treasury Board Secretariat requirement for 2010-11 year-end financial statements and it represents the net amount of cash required by the department to process internal and external accounts payable and receivable. In previous years, amounts related to this new account were included in the Equity of Canada account.
Total liabilities were $701 thousand at the end of 2010-11, an increase of $116 thousand from fiscal year 2009-10. The increase was mainly due to SIRC reaching near-full staffing levels in 2010-11 and an increase in salary related liabilities such as severance pay and vacation pay.
Total expenses for the SIRC were $3,113 thousand for fiscal year 2010-11 compared to $2,576 thousand for fiscal year 2009-10.
SIRC has three key program activities (PA) related to its strategic outcome: the Review Program Activity, the Complaints Program Activity and the Internal Services Activity. The 2010-11 total expenses per activity are described below:
$1,102 (35%) was spent under the Review Program Activity, $552 (18%) was spent under the Complaints Program Activity and $1,459 (47%) was spent under Internal Services.
The slight decrease in the level of expenses in fiscal year 2010-11 for the Complaints Program Activity from fiscal year 2009-10 ($601 thousand) is mainly due to an internal realignment of human resources between the Complaints Program Activity and Internal Services.
The increase in the level of expenses in fiscal year 2010-11 for the Review Program Activity from fiscal year 2009-10 ($848 thousand) is mainly due to the increase in salary expenses related to the additional staff being brought on strength to fill pre-existing staffing shortages.
The increase in the level of expenses for fiscal year 2010-11 for the third program activity, Internal Services, from fiscal year 2009-10 ($1,127 thousand) is as a result of the internal realignment of human resources between the Complaints Program Activity and Internal Services, the addition of staff to fill existing vacancies and the acquisition of computer equipment which had reached its maximum life expectancy.
Financial Statements
SIRC’s financial statements can be found on the SIRC website.
Section IV: Other Items of Interest
Organizational Contact Information
Security Intelligence Review Committee
P.O. Box 2430 Station “D”
Ottawa, Ontario
K1P 5W5
Telephone: (613) 990-8441
Facsimile: (613) 990-5230
Internet: www.sirc-csars.gc.ca
E-Mail: info@sirc-csars.gc.ca
Legislation Administered
Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act
1 “Type” is categorized as follows: Previously committed to—committed to in the first or second fiscal year before the subject year of the report; Ongoing—committed to at least three fiscal years before the subject year of the report; and New—newly committed to in the reporting year of the Departmental Performance Report.
2 Commencing in the 2009–10 Estimates cycle, the resources for Program Activity: Internal Service is displayed separately from other program activities; they are no longer distributed among the remaining program activities, as was the case in previous Main Estimates. This has affected the comparability of spending and FTE information by program activity between fiscal years.
3 See Public Accounts of Canada 2010.
