There are a few reasons for that. The first one is that for the coming year 2015-16 we have five special exams scheduled, whereas in the other year, when we were reporting on 2013-14, we had two special exams.
Special examinations are things that we are required to do under the Financial Administration Act. We're required to do them of crown corporations at least once every 10 years. We have a schedule of when we are doing those special exams and sometimes we have to do more of them in a given year. When we have to do that, it means we have to do fewer performance audits.
Again, remember that all of our financial audits and all of our special examinations are legislated. We are required to do them. We're required to do them, in the case of the financial audits every year, and in the case of the special examinations over that 10-year rotation period. When they fit into our schedule, we have to do them. That can have an impact on the number of performance audits we do.
The other thing that is affecting the performance audits is the audit of the senators' expenses. That work has ended up taking more than we originally anticipated it would. It has had a bit of an impact as well.
By the time you put those things together, we were at 21. If you add another three in for special exams, that's 24. The Senate—it depends on how many you want to say that is—has two or three, which gets me to 26 or 27, as opposed to the 29 the year before. I think that is probably an indication that we're always going to fall within that 27 to 30 range. We're now starting to fall down toward the lower part of that. It's showing that, in terms of the budget reductions, we're now right at that edge, where any other implication in terms of our budget would certainly cause us to fall below our normal production in terms of performance audits.