New and existing public practice firms
Starting your practice
Getting your certificate and starting your practice
Understand your obligations
Meeting the obligations of running your own public practice firm is an essential aspect of your operations. To support you with these important requirements, we’ve mapped out the key obligations and provided resources to help you meet each of them.
Resources to help your business succeed
The MY FIRM. MY FUTURE. guides are specifically designed to support your business through strategic planning, skill development, business recovery, and cybersecurity. These resources are constantly updated as the industry evolves, and they cover a wide range of public accounting issues.
MY FIRM. MY FUTURE.
Annual checklist for public practitioners
Working in or running a successful business in public practice requires carefully balancing client needs while navigating a changing and often complex landscape of professional and regulatory obligations. CPA Australia has designed an annual checklist with practical prompts to help you maintain ongoing compliance with requirements and uphold best practice standards in delivering public accounting services. It includes links to tools and resources to support you in managing, strengthening and continuously improving your practice.
Managing your firm
Managing your own firm can present many different challenges, including the application of skillsets you might not have used before. These resources are curated to help you with supporting your clients to meet their goals, looking after the mental health of you and your people, and using technology to your advantage.
Service offering
Help your clients to meet their personal and business goals
- Public practice
- Business advisory
Mental health and wellbeing
Access resources that support mental wellbeing in the workplace for you, your staff and your clients
- Mental health
- Public practice
Technology and cybersecurity
Technology improves business efficiency, cuts costs, improves service delivery and maximises profitability
- Technology