The Office of the Auditor-General undertakes to discharge its mandate as the SAI of South Africa. AGSA commits to five predetermined measurable objectives that were set for the medium-term plan to ensure improvement its performance. The AGSA's predetermined objectives aims to realise a clean audit outcome by 2014, an initiative introduced by the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA). The following measurable predetermined objectives in 2013/14 are used to evaluate the performance of the Office of the Auditor-General: