BSBSMB404 Undertake small business planning

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for BSBSMB404 ended on 17 October 2020 — 5 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments are not permitted today, unless ASQA has approved otherwise — for your organisation, for a class of RTOs, or for all RTOs. The one-year point this rule counts from — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register — fell earlier, on 19 October 2021. That date is arithmetic, not a day on which this instrument prohibited anything: s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National Vocational Education and Training Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR Registered Training Organisations and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355) commenced on 1 July 2025 and imposes nothing before then. RTOs registered by VRQA in Victoria or by the TAC in Western Australia are not covered by it.

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

A second obligation follows from the same fact: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. For an RTO registered by ASQA, new enrolments in this product are not permitted today, so a course page advertising it is not permitted either — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

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Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
BSB — Business Services Training Package
Currency period ends
17 October 2020
Latest release
Release 2 · 14 January 2016 · 2 releases in all
Supersedes
BSBSMB404A
Superseded by
BSBESB401 equivalent

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

  1. BSBSMB404Superseded — equivalentUndertake small business planning
  2. equivalent
  3. BSBESB401CurrentResearch and develop business plans

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

  • BSBSMB404ABSBSMB404equivalent24 March 2015

    Updated to meet Standards for Training Packages

  • BSBSMB404BSBESB401equivalent18 October 2020

    The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for BSBSMB404 and for its training package BSB (release 8.1), with the name and date the register publishes for each file. We link them; we have not read them, and nothing on this page is taken from their contents.

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Where BSBSMB404 is used

training.gov.au lists BSBSMB404 inside 74 training products, 14 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for BSBSMB404 in that product.

Current products 14 listed

CodeTraining productTypeBSBSMB404 is
CHC41015Certificate IV in CelebrancyQualificationelective
CPP30619Certificate III in Investigative ServicesQualificationelective
HLT52115Diploma of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Remedial MassageQualificationelective
HLT52215Diploma of Shiatsu and Oriental TherapiesQualificationelective
HLT52315Diploma of Clinical AromatherapyQualificationelective
HLT52415Diploma of KinesiologyQualificationelective
HLT52515Diploma of ReflexologyQualificationelective
HLT52615Diploma of Ayurvedic Lifestyle ConsultationQualificationelective
HLT62615Advanced Diploma of AyurvedaQualificationelective
ICP50120Diploma of Printing and Graphic Arts Business ManagementQualificationelective
RII40920Certificate IV in Drilling OperationsQualificationelective
SFI40119Certificate IV in AquacultureQualificationelective
SFI40219Certificate IV in Seafood Post Harvest OperationsQualificationelective
SHB50216Diploma of Salon ManagementQualificationelective

Products no longer current 60 listed

The register still records BSBSMB404 inside these, but it no longer recommends them as current. They are here because a scope history or an old enrolment can still point at them.

CodeTraining productTypeBSBSMB404 is
ACM40617Certificate IV in Pet StylingQualificationelective
ACM50417Diploma of Performance Horse ManagementQualificationcore
AHC42016Certificate IV in LandscapeQualificationelective
AHC42216Certificate IV in Shearing ContractingQualificationcore
AHCSS00038Landscape Business Skill SetSkill setelective
BSB40415Certificate IV in Small Business ManagementQualificationcore
BSB40915Certificate IV in GovernanceQualificationelective
BSB42515Certificate IV in Small Business ManagementQualificationcore
BSB42518Certificate IV in Small Business ManagementQualificationcore
BSB42615Certificate IV in New Small BusinessQualificationcore
Show the remaining 50 products no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeBSBSMB404 is
BSB42618Certificate IV in New Small BusinessQualificationcore
CHC52115Diploma of Community DevelopmentQualificationelective
CPC40110Certificate IV in Building and Construction (Building)Qualificationelective
CPC40708Certificate IV in Building and Construction (Trade Contracting)Qualificationelective
CPC40808Certificate IV in Swimming Pool and Spa BuildingQualificationelective
CPC40912Certificate IV in Plumbing and ServicesQualificationelective
CPP40307Certificate IV in Property Services (Real Estate)Qualificationelective
CPP40407Certificate IV in Property Services (Stock and Station Agency)Qualificationelective
CPP40507Certificate IV in Property Services (Business Broking)Qualificationelective
CPP40516Certificate IV in Strata Community ManagementQualificationelective
CPP40611Certificate IV in Property Services (Operations)Qualificationelective
CPP40811Certificate IV in Access ConsultingQualificationelective
CPP41212Certificate IV in NatHERS AssessmentQualificationelective
CUA40415Certificate IV in Live Production and Technical ServicesQualificationelective
CUA40615Certificate IV in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural ArtsQualificationelective
CUA40915Certificate IV in Music IndustryQualificationelective
CUA41215Certificate IV in Screen and MediaQualificationelective
CUA50415Diploma of Live Production and Technical ServicesQualificationelective
CUA50513Diploma of Live Production DesignQualificationelective
CUA51015Diploma of Screen and MediaQualificationelective
CUA51115Diploma of Visual ArtsQualificationelective
CUA51215Diploma of CeramicsQualificationelective
CUA60715Advanced Diploma of Visual ArtsQualificationelective
CUASS00040Community Broadcasting Coordination Skill SetSkill setelective
CUASS00042Community Broadcasting Management Skill SetSkill setelective
FBP30117Certificate III in Food ProcessingQualificationelective
FBP30217Certificate III in Plant BakingQualificationelective
FBP30617Certificate III in Food Processing (Sales)Qualificationelective
FWP40116Certificate IV in Forest OperationsQualificationelective
FWP40216Certificate IV in Timber ProcessingQualificationelective
HLT42015Certificate IV in Massage TherapyQualificationelective
HLT47815Certificate IV in Optical DispensingQualificationelective
HLT52015Diploma of Remedial MassageQualificationelective
ICP50115Diploma of Printing and Graphic ArtsQualificationelective
MSF30818Certificate III in Flooring TechnologyQualificationelective
MSF40213Certificate IV in Furniture Design and TechnologyQualificationelective
MSF50113Diploma of Stained Glass and LeadlightingQualificationelective
MSF50118Diploma of Stained Glass and LeadlightingQualificationelective
RII40115Certificate IV in Surface Extraction OperationsQualificationelective
RII40715Certificate IV in Civil Construction SupervisionQualificationelective
RII40915Certificate IV in Drilling OperationsQualificationelective
SFL40115Certificate IV in FloristryQualificationelective
SFL50115Diploma of Floristry DesignQualificationelective
SHB30215Certificate III in Make-UpQualificationelective
SHB30315Certificate III in Nail TechnologyQualificationelective
SHB50115Diploma of Beauty TherapyQualificationelective
SIF40113Certificate IV in Funeral ServicesQualificationelective
SIS40215Certificate IV in FitnessQualificationelective
SIT50216Diploma of Holiday Park and Resort ManagementQualificationelective
SIT50316Diploma of Event ManagementQualificationelective

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 14 October 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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