Course Outline
The Responsible ASIC Registered Agent
ASIC places an obligation on registered agents to keep up-to-date, comply and implement processes within their businesses that ensures compliance with their registered agent responsibilities. With ASIC’s increased focus on compliance, it’s never been a better time to revisit ASIC’s expectations of ASIC Registered Agents. This is a unique course aimed to equip ASIC Registered Agents and their staff with the skills and resources required to provide high quality corporate secretarial services to their clients and navigate ASIC lodgements.
What’s this course all about?
CPD For Accountants has partnered with CorpSec Services to deliver The Responsible ASIC Registered Agent self-paced eLearning course. The course is presented by ASIC registered agent specialist Viola Pythas, the founder of CorpSec Services and Emma Volpe, Corporate Compliance Manager, CorpSec Services..
Many registered agents don’t fully understand their obligations or the consequences of non-compliance for themselves as an agent and also for their clients. This course focuses on providing agents with a detailed understanding of their obligations, ASIC lodgement requirements, with a particular focus on supporting minutes and related governance documents. This is a unique course aimed to equip ASIC registered agents with the skills and resources required to provide high quality corporate secretarial services to their clients and navigate ASIC lodgements.
This course focuses predominantly on Pty Ltd companies as they make up the vast majority of the companies managed by ASIC Registered Agents. We also touch on public companies from an ASIC agent’s perspective as applicable.
The course will take 16 hours to complete, inclusive of module presentations and assessment tasks. All learners who complete the course will receive a certificate of completion.
Learners have access to the course for 6 months, however they are encouraged to complete the course and assessment requirements within 3 months of enrolment.
Who’s it for?
This course is suitable for:
- ASIC registered agents who would like to better understand their role and responsibilities and refresh their knowledge of the ASIC Registered Agent Terms and Conditions
- Accountants, bookkeepers and employees of accounting firms wanting further training on governance processes to be better equipped to handle their clients’ compliance work and ASIC lodgements.
- Corporate secretarial officers, company compliance officers and managers.
- Anyone wanting to deepen their understand of the rules and regulations around company compliance.
- Agents preparing minutes and governance documents to support company changes.
- Agents wanting to learn tips and tricks from an experienced practicing registered agent and governance professional.
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Feedback on the course:
“This course has been developed by a practicing ASIC registered agent, specifically for other registered agents. It combines in one course, a diverse range of topics to equip those undertaking corporate secretarial services with confidence. The course is not software dependent and is not software training. It focuses on governance practices, regulatory requirements, ASIC lodgements and tips and tricks to assist ASIC agents in their role. Over 1,000 ASIC registered agents, company secretarial officers, responsible officers and ASIC administrators attended the webinar on ‘The Responsible ASIC Registered Agent’. Now the content has been expanded and is offered in this self-paced eLearning course with 16 CPD hours of training“.
Viola Pythas | Principal of CorpSec Services | ASIC Registered Agent | Fellow of Governance Institute of Australia
“Viola from CorpSec services has developed a fantastic course for ASIC Registered Agents and has been offering a training webinar to our CAS360 clients for almost a year. With her wealth of knowledge in this specialised field, many of our clients have benefited from the webinar. BGL is very excited to learn that the webinar has now been developed into a comprehensive self-paced eLearning course which can be completed at your own pace at any time.”
Warren Renden | Head of CAS 360 | BGL Corporate Solutions
Course Content
This course consists of 9 modules:
1. ASIC Registered Agent’s Obligations
2. ASIC Registered Agent Portal, ASIC Connect & Useful ASIC Pages
3. Types of Companies and Key Considerations When Registering Companies
4. Maintaining Corporate Registers, Onboarding New Clients and Exiting Lost Clients
5. Annual Returns and Annual Financial Reporting Requirements
6. Company Changes
7. A Detailed Look at Minutes
8. Deregistrations and Reinstatements
9. Director IDs & Status Of ASIC Company Registry Reforms
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Disclaimer:
This course is not certified, approved or endorsed by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) nor is CorpSec Services Pty Ltd associated with ASIC in the provision of this training. CorpSec Services Pty Ltd does not provide legal, accounting or financial advice. Course attendees should not act solely on the basis of opinions, comments or information provided in this course without seeking professional advice in respect of their own particular circumstances. The information is provided as a guide and does not represent a definitive or legal view of any of the issues raised or referred to. The content is one interpretation of good corporate practice. It is not designed to cover or comply with all applicable legislation or case law. We cannot be held liable or accountable to any person who acts or relies upon the information provided.
Course Structure
- Learners can complete courses at a place that suits them, within and outside work hours
- Each learner will have a dedicated login to give them personal access to their course
- Module material includes online presentations, links to ASIC guidelines, pages or forms, legislative instruments, checklists, minute templates (as applicable), reference documents and supporting materials
- All modules also incorporate assessment tasks that encourage learners to develop practical actions demonstrating understanding of the concepts
- All assessment tasks are scored, with directed feedback to learners on their response
- As the learner progresses, they develop their personal SMART action list to drive change
- Managers are able to see at a glance how their staff are progressing
- Learners have access to the course for 6 months, however they are encouraged to complete the course and assessment requirements within 3 months of enrolment
Learning Process
Our self-paced eLearning courses follow a 4-step process in relation to learning objectives:
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All modules are structured with specific learning objectives and assessment tasks. Learners are expected to demonstrate that they understand learning objectives and can apply concepts through completion of the assessment tasks. A SMART action planning template is used to consolidate specific actions and to ensure that a timeframe for completion is established and followed. Regular review of progress is ensured through commitment to completing the course.
Viola from CorpSec services has developed a fantastic course for ASIC Registered Agents and has been offering a training webinar to our CAS360 clients for almost a year. With her wealth of knowledge in this specialised field, many of our clients have benefited from the webinar. BGL is very excited to learn that the webinar has now been developed into a comprehensive self-paced eLearning course which can be completed at your own pace at any time.
This course has been developed by a practicing ASIC registered agent, specifically for other registered agents. It combines in one course, a diverse range of topics to equip those undertaking corporate secretarial services with confidence. The course is not software dependent and is not software training. It focuses on governance practices, regulatory requirements, ASIC lodgements and tips and tricks to assist ASIC agents in their role. Over 450 ASIC registered agents, company secretarial officers, responsible officers and ASIC administrators attended the webinar on ‘The Responsible ASIC Registered Agent’. Now the content has been expanded and is offered in this self-paced eLearning course with 15 CPD hours of training
This course was everything that I desperately needed to build on my corporate compliance knowledge. The basics were explained clearly with links to supporting documentation and resources. I will refer back to the power point displays often. The course was clear and focussed. Thank you very much.
I have learned a lot from this course- delivery is well paced, content is thorough and necessarily a little dry but Viola does her best to walk the fine line between professional delivery and showing some personality and sharing experiences and personal knowledge. That's where the gold lies. I prefer a more rigorous assessment process- end of Module questions are mostly very simple-but that is not a criticism, more a personal preference in learning. The additional resources are excellent and the LMS is simple and functional. Including a Professional Development matrix to add to after each Module is also very useful and i can take a lot of new knowledge back to my business in a form that's ready to integrate into systems and workflows. My corporate clients will really benefit from me doing this course. I often find a lot of CPD excessively expensive and light on content, but i think that there is real value in this course and well worth the investment. I would recommend it to anyone with corporate clients- both as a refresher for the more experienced and as essential knowledge for newer Agents.
Thank you so much for this course. It was invaluable as i now feel so much more confident in the processes we have established and have the knowledge to prepare for what is to come.
I have been doing ASIC work as part of the administration team for an accountancy firm for the last 7 years. I wish this course was around when I first started. I have found this course to be great in relation to confirming procedures that we currently have in place & some that can improve or introduce in the future. I really liked the checklist templates in the various modules, that will help for things like onboarding/exiting client/ de-registrations etc. I would highly recommend this course to our office for any employees who would like a better understanding of how ASIC works or for new employees who would be taking on the ASIC role. I look forward to seeing how the New ABRS site works especially in relation to duplication of workload. Thanks for the great work in putting this course together.
This course was well presented. The content was very thorough and I learned many things when I did not expect to. I would definitely recommend the course for both beginners and experienced ASIC Agents and the staff undertaking this work.
Good explanations of all items, not just of processes & documents but the reasons behind them & also plenty of detail. The PPT notes were excellent as well. Certainly improved my knowledge & understanding. Thanks
I very much enjoyed and have benefited from this course. It provided me with both a summary and the technical side of how to correctly manage my corporate secretarial clients. The presenter clearly spoke and explained the items in a manner in which was easily understood and therefore the knowledge retained by myself. I have added in many of the checklists and updated my firm's processes to ensure compliance of record keeping and to ensure all corporate secretarial matters are understood and the appropriate documents held or prepared. The references and resources provided was extensive and very useful for guiding me to the correct area when I have to deal with 'out of the box' scenarios.
I absolutely loved the course and it is so relevant to my role. Everything was well covered and answers to my questions were answered in a timely manner. Thanks again, Viola.
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