ATO: The Essentials to strengthen your small business
Support for owners and entrepreneurs to build capability in finances, tax, super and more
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has launched a free education platform to support small businesses and entrepreneurs through the different lifecycle stages of business.
The Essentials to strengthen your small business portal is an “all in one tool kit” featuring more than 20 courses grouped into five stages of business: idea, startup, day-to-day, change and exit.
Courses include fact sheets, quizes and action plans
If you want to take advantage of this resource from the ATO you will need to create a basic account which is not linked to your ATO or government accounts. An account will:
allow you to track your progress with courses
highlights key dates for tax and super (eg. BAS activity statement deadlines etc).
create a personalised learning pathway relevant to where your business is currently at (ie. the 5 stages) and remove courses you no longer need.
Take and save your own notes and flag ‘favourite’ courses.
The 21 courses are made up of a series of modules and can be filtered further by business structure and industry. Course duration and progress is displayed and each course includes downloadable 'Fast Facts', a 'Knowledge check' quiz, quick links and an Action Plan in checklist form.
