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This guideline presents the should be financial business process for Manage Planning and Budgeting and describes the annual activities that departments would complete in order to develop detailed internal departmental plans and budgets against their voted authorities for the fiscal year.

This standard provides requirements for departments in ensuring that a) employees are able to meet the health requirements of their work; b) that they are able to do their work with minimum risk to themselves or others of incurring illness, injury or disability that may arise out of the conditions of work; and c) the conditions under which employees with illnesses, injuries or disabilities are able to continue working.

This directive supports the Policy on Internal Control by outlining the roles and responsibilities of chief financial officers and departmental managers in charging, collecting, remitting and paying the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) where applicable. This directive establishes a consistent approach that ensures that departments charge and collect GST or HST on their taxable supplies of goods or services and pay GST or HST on their purchases as required by the relevant legislation.

This document, the 'Guideline on Common Financial Management Business Process for Pay Administration' or 'FM-BP/PA', defines the HR/Finance Pay Administration Model (referred hereafter as the Pay Administration Model or PAM), which documents common HR and finance pay-related processes, data, roles and responsibilities, and authoritative sources. The HR/Finance Pay Administration Model is a 'should be' model that reflects best practices and definitions under the current Government of Canada (GC) systems and policy frameworks, specifically identifying how financial policy and the Financial Administration Act (FAA) and other legislation apply to the pay administration process.

This standard establishes requirements for departments to adopt a common methodology for assessing their identity and credential risks and for selecting appropriate controls or arrangements to mitigate those risks using a standardized assurance level framework.

This guideline presents the should be model for Manage Other Capital Assets, which involves financial management during the life cycle of a capital asset (excluding real property) that is managed by a department.

The Communications Policy of the Government of Canada ensures that communications across the Government are well co-ordinated, effectively managed and responsive to the diverse information needs of the public.

This guideline sets out recommendations to assist departments when procuring network equipment, in support of the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) Adoption Strategy

The Guidelines on the Proactive Disclosure of Contracts will help managers and functional specialists identify collect and publish contract information that is to be proactively disclosed. This guidance more closely reflects the spirit and intent of the announcement in Budget 2004 and furthers transparency and accountability government-wide.

This policy takes effect in November 19, 2012 and replaces previous Treasury Board official languages policies.