FNSACC502A Prepare income tax returns for individuals

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededEquivalent

The currency period for FNSACC502A ended on 5 March 2012 — 14 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockClosed to new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 7 March 2013 — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National VET Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR RTOs and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355, in force 1 July 2025)), or from a later date if ASQA has approved otherwise for your organisation.

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).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule

Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
FNS10 — Financial Services Training Package
Currency period ends
5 March 2012
Latest release
Release 1 · 24 November 2010
Supersedes
FNSACCT502B
Superseded by
FNSACC502B 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. FNSACC502ASuperseded — equivalentPrepare income tax returns for individuals
  2. equivalent
  3. FNSACC502BSuperseded — equivalentPrepare legally compliant tax returns for individuals
  4. equivalent
  5. FNSACC502Superseded — equivalentPrepare tax documentation for individuals
  6. equivalent
  7. FNSACC512Superseded — equivalentPrepare tax documentation for individuals
  8. equivalent
  9. FNSACC522CurrentPrepare tax documentation for individuals

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.

  • FNSACCT502BFNSACC502Aequivalent23 November 2010

    Updated and code and title changed

  • FNSACC502AFNSACC502Bequivalent6 March 2012

    Unit reviewed and enhanced to reflect Tax Practitioners Board requirements. Name change to reflect the application of knowledge.

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Whether a supersession requires anything of you, and what, sits with you and your regulator. This page maps what the register records; it does not make that judgement. If the difference between an equivalent and a non-equivalent replacement is the question, we wrote it up in equivalent vs not equivalent.

Where FNSACC502A is used

training.gov.au lists FNSACC502A inside 1 training product, which it no longer lists as current. It is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for FNSACC502A in that product.

Products no longer current 1 listed

The register still records FNSACC502A inside this one, but it no longer recommends it as current. It is here because a scope history or an old enrolment can still point at it.

CodeTraining productTypeFNSACC502A is
FNS50210Diploma of AccountingQualificationelective

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 28 August 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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