FNS40615 Certificate IV in Accounting

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for FNS40615 ended on 11 February 2018 — 8 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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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).

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Product type
Qualification
Training package
FNS — Financial Services Training Package
Currency period ends
11 February 2018
Latest release
Release 2 · 22 April 2015 · 2 releases in all
Supersedes
FNS40611
Superseded by
FNS40217 not 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. FNS40615Superseded — not equivalentCertificate IV in Accounting
  2. not equivalent
  3. FNS40217Superseded — equivalentCertificate IV in Accounting and Bookkeeping
  4. equivalent
  5. FNS40222CurrentCertificate IV in Accounting and Bookkeeping

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.

  • FNS40611FNS40615not equivalent24 March 2015

    Updated to meet Standards for Training Packages. Packaging rules updated - Core units increased from nine to ten.

  • FNS40615FNS40217not equivalent12 February 2018

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

Official documents on the register

What training.gov.au lists for FNS40615 and for its training package FNS (release 8.2), 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.

Is FNS40615 on your scope?

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What FNS40615 is made of

training.gov.au lists 21 units for FNS40615: 10 core and 11 elective. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. How many of the electives are required is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Core units 10 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
BSBFIA401Prepare financial reportsnot current
BSBITU306Design and produce business documentsnot current
FNSACC301Process financial transactions and extract interim reportsnot current
FNSACC302Administer subsidiary accounts and ledgersnot current
FNSACC402Prepare operational budgetsnot current
FNSACC404Prepare financial statements for non-reporting entitiesnot current
FNSACC406Set up and operate a computerised accounting systemnot current
FNSBKG404Carry out business activity and instalment activity statement tasksnot current
FNSBKG405Establish and maintain a payroll systemnot current
FNSINC401Apply principles of professional practice to work in the financial services industrynot current

Elective units 11 listed

CodeUnitIn this product
BSBITU402Develop and use complex spreadsheetsnot current
BSBWHS201Contribute to health and safety of self and othersnot current
BSBWRT301Write simple documentsnot current
FNSACC303Perform financial calculationsnot current
FNSACC401Process business tax requirementsnot current
FNSACC403Make decisions in a legal contextnot current
FNSACC405Maintain inventory recordscurrent
FNSACC407Produce job costing informationcurrent
FNSACM401Evaluate and authorise payment requestsnot current
FNSORG505Prepare financial reports to meet statutory requirementsnot current
FNSORG506Prepare financial forecasts and projectionscurrent

Core and elective are the register's own flags on the unit grid of the release read here. "Not current" means training.gov.au no longer recommends that unit for use inside this product — it does not say anything about the product itself.

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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