ICTSMB401 — Set up and operate a contractor business
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What an assessment for ICTSMB401 must cover
37 assessable components: 4 elements (18 performance criteria), 4 performance evidence and 9 knowledge evidence requirements, plus 6 foundation skills. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.
Elements & performance criteria
1 Set up business operation
- 1.1Develop business plan for small business operation according to business planning guidelines
- 1.2Follow statutory and legal requirements to register business
- 1.3Mitigate liabilities by obtaining adequate business insurance
- 1.4Provide and maintain vehicle through purchase, lease or hire purchase, including managing fringe benefits tax (FBT) liabilities according to business plan
2 Provide client service
- 2.1Develop and maintain client base to support business plan
- 2.2Analyse and determine client expectations in relation to industry standards
- 2.3Provide client service that meets client expectations according to enterprise standards
- 2.4Monitor and evaluate performance on installations completed against industry standards
3 Perform small business financial management tasks
- 3.1Record income and expenditure using bookkeeping tools and software according to normal accounting standards
- 3.2Construct small business financial balance sheet using banking records or supply information to accountant according to normal accounting standards
- 3.3Calculate small business taxation and superannuation requirements or supply information to accountant according to normal accounting standards
- 3.4Complete a business activity statement (BAS) or supply data to accountant according to normal accounting standards
4 Cost and quote installation
- 4.1Establish extent of work to be completed through professional and personable discussions with client
- 4.2Complete job specification for quote with cost estimates of time required to complete work
- 4.3Estimate and include cost of materials using supplier quoted prices
- 4.4Determine and include margin for profit and ongoing costs for installation according to business plan
- 4.5Check finalised quote for accuracy
- 4.6Submit quote to client within agreed timeframe
Performance evidence
- produce a business plan and set up a business
- define and meet client needs
- perform simple financial management tasks including maintaining simple financial records, and completing business activity statement (BAS), fringe benefits tax (FBT) and insurance documentation
- quote for installation jobs that cover all aspects of costing.
Knowledge evidence
- specify business registration and licensing requirements
- identify and describe Commonwealth, state, territory and local government legislative requirements relating to business operations including: • anti-discrimination • environmental issues • equal employment opportunity • industrial relations • work health and safety (WHS) • taxation requirements
- analyse costs associated with running a business
- identify the current tax rates
- identify relevant industry codes of practice and evaluate their impact on the business
- identify relevant industry standards in relation to: • materials and labour costs • rates of pay
- identify common business liabilities
- evaluate several sources of advice and specialist services
- identify sources of information about regulatory, taxation and insurance requirements and issues.
Foundation skills
- Reading: Evaluates and integrates facts and ideas to construct meaning from a prescribed and limited range of text types, including relevant regulatory, taxation and insurance information
- Writing: Conveys intended meaning on familiar topics for a limited range of purposes and audiences
- Oral Communication: Selects and uses appropriate strategies to establish and maintain spoken communication in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts, particularly in relation to clients, employees and government officers
- Numeracy: Selects from and uses a variety of mathematical and problem solving strategies in a range of familiar and some less familiar contexts, including preparation of quotes and calculation of profit margins • Extracts and evaluates the mathematical information embedded in a range of tasks and texts, including interpretation of financial information
- Navigate the world of work: Takes personal responsibility for adherence to legal and regulatory responsibilities relevant to business registration • Recognises and follows protocols in relation to enterprise standards and meets client expectations associated with role
- Get the work done: Uses a combination of formal, logical planning processes and an increasingly intuitive understanding of context to develop a business plan • Implements actions as per plan, making slight adjustments if necessary, and addressing some unexpected issues • Makes a range of critical and non-critical decisions in relation to mitigating liabilities and providing client service, taking a range of constraints into account • Uses analytical processes to decide on a course of action, establishing criteria for deciding between options when developing client solutions • Uses a broad range of features within bookkeeping tools and applications to improve personal productivity, optimising software functions for specific purposes
Unit content sourced from training.gov.au — © Commonwealth of Australia, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Auditori is not affiliated with the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations.
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Questions about assessing ICTSMB401
What does an assessment tool for ICTSMB401 need to cover?
To satisfy the Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence, an assessment for ICTSMB401 needs to address all 37 unit components: 4 elements with 18 performance criteria, 4 performance evidence requirements, 9 knowledge evidence requirements, and the foundation skills. A coverage matrix mapping each question and task to these components is what an auditor looks for.
How does Auditori generate an assessment tool for ICTSMB401?
Auditori pulls the current release of ICTSMB401 from training.gov.au and generates a complete package: candidate assessment, assessor guide with model answers and observation criteria, and a coverage matrix mapping every component. A suitably qualified person then reviews and approves the draft in a built-in workflow — consistent with ASQA's guidance on AI use in VET — before export as branded PDF and editable Word.
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