Each year, the Mississippi Insurance Department prepares a five-year strategic plan which is submitted to the Legislative Budget Office and the Department of Finance and Administration Office of Budget and Fund Management in compliance with the Mississippi Performance Budget and Strategic Planning Act of 1994. The plan contains a comprehensive agency mission statement; a narrative overview setting out the planned direction of the agency for the next five years; performance effectiveness objectives for each agency program; a description of significant external factors which may affect the projected levels of performance; and a description of the agency's internal management system used to evaluate its performance achievements in relationship to targeted performance levels.