CPA Australia AML: starter kit and designated services

People search “CPA Australia AML” when a tax practice assumes a CPA factsheet has already done the AUSTRAC program. Checked against the AUSTRAC accountant starter kit on 4 October 2026. This is general information, not legal advice. This page does not reproduce that guidance. Which accounting services are designated is AML for accountants: designated services. What you still edit in a kit is the starter kit customise note. The sector map is /tranche-2.

Member material is not the kit

A professional body can explain the reforms to its members, and that explanation is not the AML/CTF program, and it is not the enrolment. AUSTRAC published an accountant starter kit and told firms to customise it. A three-partner tax practice in the suburbs does that work whether or not the partners are CPA members. The non-member down the street has the same AUSTRAC starting point.

The edit is the designated services, and accounting work that is not a designated service stays out. Work that is a designated service stays in, with the customers and the risks that practice actually has. An untouched download describes a generic firm. This page does not reproduce the kit and it does not summarise a member factsheet line by line.

• Open the accountant kit. A legal kit or a real estate kit will not describe a tax practice, even if a partner likes the headings.
• List the services you provide. Delete the rest. Adding a service later means editing the program, not hoping the old file still covers it.
• Enrol as the business. The member number does not enrol the partnership, the company, or the sole practitioner.
• Then use software for the checks. The program names when a person is KYC and when a company or trust is KYB. The software does not pick the services.

Factsheet, kit, program, check

A short map of the kits across sectors is the starter kits summary. Accountants as a sector, beyond this kit point, are AML for accountants in Australia.

Where the member-factsheet page stops

This page is the order of operations for a CPA member: kit, designated services, approval. It is not the body’s factsheet and it is not a list of every accounting service that is designated. FreeAML does not join you to a body or lodge your enrolment.

What the client pays

On FreeAML the firm suite is A$0. The firm emails the client a link. Verification is client-pays. On the public list a personal KYC check is A$20 and a company or trust KYB check is A$40. Use KYB when the customer is a company or a trust. A professional-body factsheet is not a check, and a membership fee is not the client-pays verification. Confirm the live amounts on FreeAML pricing. FreeAML does not enrol your practice or turn a member factsheet into the program.

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