Under the guidance of these four perspectives, each government authority has to declare to the cabinet its strategic plan, desired results and goals, and performance indicators relating to the results and goals. These procedures are to ensure that government’s activities and operations are performed in line with the strategic plan and achieve the desired outcome. This new concept has been practiced since the beginning of the fiscal year of B.E. 2546 (2003), instead of the old version of the performance declaration annual report which described only what a government authority did and what was done each year, which was sometimes written in an imprecise way which could distort the facts.