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Small business – legal framework dive
- 1-1.5 hrs
- 1 CPD points
- Technical
In this session recording you will explores some of the tools creditors use to insure their own interests, such as caveats, fees and charges, in the context of limited legal protections for small business. This training session will assist financial counsellors to identify contractual terms which can cause substantial difficulty for the small business client.
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- Resource Type: CPD, Learning Materials, Session Recording
- Topics: Small Business Advanced
Small Business Advanced – Director penalty notices
- 1 hrs
- 1 CPD points
- Technical
This session was aimed at small business financial counsellors trained to assist small business owners in company structures. ATO debts are very common feature of small businesses in financial difficulty, and the number of Director Penalty Notices (DPN) being issued by the ATO is significant. This session highlights the risk of personal liability of directors in receipt of a DPN, and the tight timeframe and limited options available for the company and the directors.
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- Resource Type: CPD, Learning Materials, Session Recording
- Topics: Small Business Advanced
Small Business and Disaster
- 2 hrs
- 1 CPD points
- Technical, Skills
This session was focused on small business challenges in a disaster environment. A panel of experts have provided an overview on different types of supports available to small business affected by the bushfires and COVID-19 as well how FCs can best support those clients.
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- Resource Type: CPD, Learning Materials, Session Recording
- Topics: Disaster Recovery, Small Business Foundations
Small Business Basics
- 2 hrs
- 1 CPD points
- Technical, Skills
Assisting small business owners can be much the same as assisting individuals in financial difficulty, particularly if the small business is a sole trader. Your generalist financial counselling skills are very relevant, but you may need additional information and skills to assist small business clients.
This session recording is aimed at financial counsellors who occasionally assist small business owners, or those wanting to know more about small business. If you have recently completed the Financial Counselling Diploma Small Business Unit, this recording will reinforce and complement your learnings.
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- Resource Type: CPD, Learning Materials, Session Recording
- Topics: Small Business
Small Business Debt Helpline
Phone service available 9:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday.
The Small Business Debt Helpline was set up in 2020 by Financial Counselling Australia (FCA) with funding from the Australian Government to support small business owners affected by bushfires. The Helpline is now supporting all small business owners.
Financial counsellors can contact the Helpline for secondary consults.
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- Topics: Small Business
Small Business e-Learning Series
- 1-10+ hrs
- 1-10 CPD points
- Technical, Skills
The Small Business e-Learning Series has been developed within FCVic’s Small Business Wellbeing project funded by the Victorian Government.
The Series comprises two streams: ‘Foundations’ and ‘Advanced’. The 14 ‘Foundations’ modules align with the Diploma of Financial Counselling unit CHCFIN010: Apply basic concepts of small business to financial counselling. The 6 ‘Advanced’ modules provide more specialist content to suited to small business financial counsellors’ practice.
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- Resource Type: CPD, e-Learning
- Topics: Small Business Advanced, Small Business Foundations