Your own accounting practice, with experienced mentors and a team behind you
Platinum Accounting Australia is an accounting licensee network. You trade under your own brand and keep your own clients. Our team mentors and supports you, your AI team prepares the work, and we review and lodge every return under our tax agent registration.
Why run your own practice now?
Accounting is changing faster than at any time in the last 20 years. AI now prepares much of the routine compliance work that used to fill an accountant's week. The value is moving to the client relationship, judgement and advice.
AI handles the routine
Workpapers, data entry and first draft returns are increasingly prepared by AI. Hours spent on processing are worth less every year.
Clients want more
Clients expect faster turnaround, clearer answers and someone who knows their situation. The relationship is the product.
Systems cost more than one person can carry
Software, compliance, insurance and review are hard to fund alone. A shared back office levels the field.
Standing still
- Competing on hours for work AI does faster
- Carrying software, insurance and compliance costs alone
- Your skills tied to an employer's clients and brand
- Waiting until you hold your own registration to start
- Learning by trial and error, on your own
Moving now
- Your time goes into clients, judgement and growth
- Systems, review and lodgement shared across a network
- Your own brand and your own client base
- Start practising under Platinum's registration while you work towards your own licence
- Learning from mentors who have built a practice
The practices that thrive next will own the client relationship and let AI do the groundwork.
You don't need to have it all figured out
Most licensees have never run a practice before. You don't need everything ready to start. You need the right mentor to turn your experience into a business, and a team behind you while you grow.
Build your skills
Practical training on real client work, plus ongoing updates on the latest tax changes and AI tools, so your skills grow with your practice.
Win clients
Your AI team runs your marketing, and we coach you through your first client conversations, proposals and pricing.
Coaching and mentoring
Monthly coaching with the network, one on one mentoring when you need it, and a support email and direct line to our technical team.
AI helps you work smarter. Platinum gives you the confidence to run your business.
What's in it for you?
Your own BAS or tax agent licence
Work towards your own BAS agent or tax agent registration, with TPB approved agent courses through Platinum Professional Training and supervised experience in your own practice. The TPB determines eligibility.
Your own brand
Your practice name, your website, your clients. We stay in the background.
The back office and systems
Every return reviewed and lodged under our tax agent registration, with professional indemnity cover, CRM and practice systems.
Your AI team
AI marketing, tax preparation and research do the groundwork, so you spend your time with clients.
Why Platinum?
Built by an accountant who lived it
We started in 2008 as a franchisee, lodged under our own tax agent registration from 2011, and have run independently since 2015, with expertise in SME and high net worth clients.
Licensing, not a franchise
No fixed multi year term, no non-compete clause, and an AI team built in.
Compare licensing and franchisingProven at scale
50+ licensee practices and 10,000+ returns prepared through our AI system.
A second pair of eyes on everything
Every return and piece of advice is reviewed by Platinum before it goes out.
Coco Hou, Founder and CEO. CPA and registered tax agent. Read our story
Ready to run your own practice?
Book a free discovery call. We'll look at your experience and goals, walk you through the pathway, and explain investment and revenue sharing so you see the full picture before you decide.