FNSINC401A Apply principles of professional practice to work in the financial services industry

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The currency period for FNSINC401A ended on 23 March 2015 — 11 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

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New enrolments are not permitted from 25 March 2016 — 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
FNS10 — Financial Services Training Package
Currency period ends
23 March 2015
Latest release
Release 1 · 24 November 2010
Supersedes
FNSICIND401B
Superseded by
FNSINC401 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. FNSINC401ASuperseded — equivalentApply principles of professional practice to work in the financial services industry
  2. equivalent
  3. FNSINC401Superseded — not equivalentApply principles of professional practice to work in the financial services industry
  4. not equivalent
  5. 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.

  • FNSICIND401BFNSINC401Anot equivalent23 November 2010

    Revised content to cover sustainability and team working and re-coded

  • FNSINC401AFNSINC401equivalent24 March 2015

    Updated to meet Standards for Training Packages

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Where FNSINC401A is used

training.gov.au lists FNSINC401A inside 55 training products, none of them current. Every one of them is below, with the register's own core or elective flag for FNSINC401A in that product.

Products no longer current 55 listed

The register still records FNSINC401A 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 productTypeFNSINC401A is
FNS30410Certificate III in Mercantile AgentsQualificationelective
FNS40110Certificate IV in Credit ManagementQualificationelective
FNS40111Certificate IV in Credit ManagementQualificationelective
FNS40210Certificate IV in BookkeepingQualificationelective
FNS40211Certificate IV in BookkeepingQualificationelective
FNS40510Certificate IV in Personal Injury Management (Underwriting)Qualificationelective
FNS40610Certificate IV in AccountingQualificationelective
FNS40611Certificate IV in AccountingQualificationelective
FNS40710Certificate IV in Financial Practice SupportQualificationelective
FNS40810Certificate IV in Finance and Mortgage BrokingQualificationelective
Show the remaining 45 products no longer current
CodeTraining productTypeFNSINC401A is
FNS40811Certificate IV in Finance and Mortgage BrokingQualificationelective
FNS40910Certificate IV in SuperannuationQualificationelective
FNS40911Certificate IV in SuperannuationQualificationelective
FNS41010Certificate IV in Banking ServicesQualificationelective
FNS41011Certificate IV in Banking ServicesQualificationelective
FNS41110Certificate IV in Financial Markets OperationsQualificationelective
FNS41210Certificate IV in Mobile BankingQualificationelective
FNS41211Certificate IV in Mobile BankingQualificationelective
FNS41310Certificate IV in Personal Trust AdministrationQualificationelective
FNS41311Certificate IV in Personal Trust AdministrationQualificationelective
FNS41410Certificate IV in General InsuranceQualificationelective
FNS41411Certificate IV in General InsuranceQualificationelective
FNS41510Certificate IV in Life InsuranceQualificationelective
FNS41610Certificate IV in Loss AdjustingQualificationelective
FNS41611Certificate IV in Loss AdjustingQualificationcore
FNS41811Certificate IV in Financial ServicesQualificationelective
FNS50310Diploma of Finance and Mortgage Broking ManagementQualificationelective
FNS50311Diploma of Finance and Mortgage Broking ManagementQualificationelective
FNS50410Diploma of ConveyancingQualificationelective
FNS50411Diploma of ConveyancingQualificationelective
FNS50510Diploma of Personal TrusteesQualificationelective
FNS50511Diploma of Personal TrusteesQualificationelective
FNS50610Diploma of Financial PlanningQualificationelective
FNS50611Diploma of Financial PlanningQualificationelective
FNS50710Diploma of SuperannuationQualificationelective
FNS50711Diploma of SuperannuationQualificationelective
FNS50810Diploma of Financial Risk ManagementQualificationelective
FNS50811Diploma of Integrated Risk ManagementQualificationelective
FNS50910Diploma of Banking Services ManagementQualificationelective
FNS51010Diploma of Financial MarketsQualificationelective
FNS51011Diploma of Financial MarketsQualificationelective
FNS51110Diploma of General InsuranceQualificationelective
FNS51310Diploma of Life InsuranceQualificationelective
FNS51410Diploma of Loss AdjustingQualificationelective
FNS51510Diploma of Credit ManagementQualificationelective
FNS51511Diploma of Credit ManagementQualificationelective
FNS51610Diploma of SecuritisationQualificationelective
FNS51611Diploma of SecuritisationQualificationelective
FNS51811Diploma of Financial ServicesQualificationelective
FNS60110Advanced Diploma of Insurance BrokingQualificationelective
FNS60310Advanced Diploma of ConveyancingQualificationelective
FNS60311Advanced Diploma of ConveyancingQualificationelective
FNS60510Advanced Diploma of SuperannuationQualificationelective
FNS60513Advanced Diploma of SuperannuationQualificationcore
FNS60610Advanced Diploma of Banking Services 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 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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