FNSINC401 Apply principles of professional practice to work in the financial services industry

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for FNSINC401 ended on 29 June 2020 — 6 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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New enrolments are not permitted from 1 July 2021 — 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).

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Product type
Unit of competency
Training package
FNS — Financial Services Training Package
Currency period ends
29 June 2020
Latest release
Release 1 · 25 March 2015
Supersedes
FNSINC401A
Superseded by
FNSINC411 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. FNSINC401Superseded — not equivalentApply principles of professional practice to work in the financial services industry
  2. not equivalent
  3. FNSINC411CurrentConduct work according to professional practices in the financial services industry

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.

  • FNSINC401AFNSINC401equivalent24 March 2015

    Updated to meet Standards for Training Packages

  • FNSINC401FNSINC411not equivalent30 June 2020

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

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Where FNSINC401 is used

training.gov.au lists FNSINC401 inside 37 training products, 2 of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for FNSINC401 in that product.

Current products 2 listed

CodeTraining productTypeFNSINC401 is
BSB60220Advanced Diploma of ConveyancingQualificationelective
FNS42120Certificate IV in Personal Injury ManagementQualificationelective

Products no longer current 35 listed

The register still records FNSINC401 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 productTypeFNSINC401 is
BSB52015Diploma of ConveyancingQualificationcore
BSB61115Advanced Diploma of ConveyancingQualificationcore
FNS30415Certificate III in Mercantile AgentsQualificationelective
FNS40115Certificate IV in Credit ManagementQualificationcore
FNS40215Certificate IV in BookkeepingQualificationcore
FNS40615Certificate IV in AccountingQualificationcore
FNS40715Certificate IV in Financial Practice SupportQualificationcore
FNS40815Certificate IV in Finance and Mortgage BrokingQualificationcore
FNS40915Certificate IV in SuperannuationQualificationcore
FNS41115Certificate IV in Financial Markets OperationsQualificationcore
Show the remaining 25 products no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeFNSINC401 is
FNS41315Certificate IV in Personal Trust AdministrationQualificationcore
FNS41415Certificate IV in General InsuranceQualificationcore
FNS41815Certificate IV in Financial ServicesQualificationcore
FNS41915Certificate IV in Personal Injury ManagementQualificationelective
FNS42015Certificate IV in Banking ServicesQualificationcore
FNS42115Certificate IV in Personal Injury ManagementQualificationelective
FNS42215Certificate IV in Personal Trust AdministrationQualificationcore
FNS50115Diploma of Personal Injury ManagementQualificationelective
FNS50315Diploma of Finance and Mortgage Broking ManagementQualificationcore
FNS50417Diploma of Payroll ServicesQualificationcore
FNS50515Diploma of Personal TrusteesQualificationcore
FNS50615Diploma of Financial PlanningQualificationcore
FNS50715Diploma of SuperannuationQualificationcore
FNS50815Diploma of Integrated Risk ManagementQualificationelective
FNS50915Diploma of Banking Services ManagementQualificationcore
FNS51015Diploma of Financial MarketsQualificationcore
FNS51115Diploma of General InsuranceQualificationcore
FNS51415Diploma of Loss AdjustingQualificationelective
FNS51515Diploma of Credit ManagementQualificationcore
FNS51615Diploma of SecuritisationQualificationcore
FNS51815Diploma of Financial ServicesQualificationcore
FNS51915Diploma of Personal Injury and Disability Insurance ManagementQualificationelective
FNS52015Diploma of Personal TrustsQualificationcore
FNS60515Advanced Diploma of SuperannuationQualificationcore
FNS60615Advanced Diploma of Banking Services ManagementQualificationcore

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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